Utilization of Mental Health Services by Children Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined changes in utilization of mental health services after Hurricane Katrina among children with preexisting conditions who were displaced from their homes in Louisiana disaster counties and resettled in Texas.

Methods

A retrospective analysis was performed on Medicaid claims data for 101,950 children from 2004 to 2006. Pre-post changes in utilization of mental health services by the displaced children and three control groups were compared. The control groups were children from Louisiana disaster counties who were not displaced, Louisiana children from nondisaster counties, and Texas children enrolled in Medicaid.

Results

The proportion of children who had a prescription fill for psychotropic medication and the average days' supply per child

SUBMITTER: Quast T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227124 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature