Measuring Access to Mental Health Services Among Primary Care Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lifetime risk of mental health disorders is almost 50% and, in any year, about 25% of the population have a psychiatric disorder. Many of those people are cared for in primary care settings.

Research objective

Measure access to mental health services, such as getting counselling or prescription mental health medications, using new patient survey questions that can be added to Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys.

Study design

Surveys were conducted with a stratified probability sample of patients receiving primary care services in a single state in 2018-2019. Medicaid and privately insured patients were surveyed by mail or telephone, respectively.

Results

Approximately 14% of sampled patients responded to a surv

SUBMITTER: Hargraves JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11226347 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature