Simulating the Impact of Psychologist Prescribing Authority Policies on Mental Health Prescriber Shortages.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To simulate the impact of granting prescriptive authority to licensed psychologists on shortages of mental health providers with prescriptive authority.

Methods

We used national and state-level secondary data to construct a policy simulation. Mental health prescribing need and the number of mental health prescribers were estimated at the national and state levels, and the provider shortage was calculated as the difference between these two values. The simulated policy intervention added 10% of psychologists to the prescriber group to estimate the associated reduction in prescriber shortages. Probabilistic uncertainty and sensitivity analyses were conducted using 10,000 Markov trials in which all model parameters varied randomly based on their associated uncertainty

SUBMITTER: Hughes PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11855338 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature