The Fort Bragg continuum of care for children and adolescents: mental health outcomes over 5 years.
Controversial early results of the Fort Bragg mental-health-effectiveness study indicated that the continuum of care did not produce better outcomes (i.e., children's rate of improvement was the same in both the demonstration and comparison sites). The present study considered outcomes at 5-year follow-up to examine long-term effects from the continuum of care. A random regression longitudinal model analyzed 10 key outcome variables measured 7 times. Long-term outcomes in continuum-treated children were no better than those of comparison children; results are consistent with those of earlier studies.
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Center for Mental Health Policy, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy, Nashville, Tennessee 37212, USA. Bickman@attglobal.net
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016017:Odds Ratio; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care