Association between physician characteristics and practice-level uptake of paediatric virtual mental healthcare: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine physician factors associated with practice-level uptake of virtual mental healthcare for children and adolescents.

Design, setting and participants

A population-based data linkage study of a cohort of all physicians (n=12 054) providing outpatient mental healthcare to children and adolescents (aged 3-17 years, n=303 185) in a single-payer provincial health system in Ontario, Canada from 1 July 2020 to 31 July 2021.

Exposures

Physician characteristics including gender, age, specialty, location of training, practice region, practice size and overall and mental health practice size.

Main outcomes

Practice-level proportion of outpatient virtual care provided: (1) mostly in-person (<25% virtual care), (2) hybrid (25%-99% virtual care) or (3) exc

SUBMITTER: Saunders NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10350908 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature