title: Availability of Youth Services in U.S. Mental Health Treatment Facilities.
abstract: Despite concern about access to mental health (MH) services for youth, little is known about the specialty treatment infrastructure serving this population. We used national data to examine which types of MH treatment facilities (hospital- and community-based) were most likely to offer youth services and which types of communities were most likely to have this infrastructure. Larger (p < 0.001) and privately owned (p < 0.001) facilities were more likely to offer youth services. Rural counties, counties in which a majority of residents were nonwhite, and/or counties with a higher percentage of uninsured residents were less likely to have a community-based MH treatment facility that served youth (p < 0.001).
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA. jrcummi@emory.edu.
authors.forename: Janet R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Cummings
authors.affiliation: Health Services Research Program, Bradley Hospital, East Providence, USA.|Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, USA.|Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, USA.
authors.forename: Brady G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Case
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA.|School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
authors.forename: Steven C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Marcus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution; D014481:United States
keywords: Access to services; Children and adolescents; Mental health facilities