ADHD: Insurance and Mental Health Service Use

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Pediatr (Phila)
• Personal Author:
  Pastor, Patricia N. ; Simon, Alan E. ; Reuben, Cynthia A.
• Description:
  We describe mental health service use by insurance among children aged 4 to 17 with diagnosed attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Using parent reports from 2010-2013 National Health Interview Survey, we estimate the percentage that received services for emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD): medication, other nonmedication services, and none (neither medication nor other nonmedication services). Among children with diagnosed ADHD, 56.0% had used medication for EBD, 39.8% had contact with a mental health professional, 32.2% had contact with a general doctor about the child's EBD, and 20.4% received special education services for EBD. Medication use was more often reported for privately or publicly insured children than uninsured children ( P < .001), and uninsured children more often received no services ( P < .001). Publicly insured children were more likely than privately insured children to receive other nonmedication services ( P < .001). Less than a third (28.9%) of all children received no services as compared to almost half (48.8%) of uninsured children.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity Child Child, Preschool Female Humans Insurance, Health Male Mental Health Services
• Keywords:
  Children Emotional And Behavioral Difficulties Mental Health Serious Emotional Disorders Service Utilization
• Source:
  Clin Pediatr (Phila). 56(8):729-736
• Pubmed ID:
  27742827
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10484015
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:68b80cd031dafd153da9d41190c426ca3bf6b2fdad78ba7d811bd1878d43ea379ddcea031d9812afdd25a94f2430fe0074de005e7e655cd78486bfac858c6bfe
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