Understanding predictors of mental health and substance use treatment utilization among US adults: A repeated cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding discrepancies in mental health and substance use treatment utilization can help identify inequities in access to health services. We investigate mental health and substance use treatment utilization as function of demographic and social determinants, as well as pre-existing mental health and substance use disorders.

Methods

In this repeated cross-sectional study, we used the 2017-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data on US adults above age 18. Two logistic regression models were conducted, using predictors of age, gender, race/Hispanicity, sexual identity, education, insurance, family income, and past year mental health and substance use disorders, with outcomes of mental health or substance use treatment utilization. Weighted estimates of

SUBMITTER: Dhinsa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445987 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature