Youth Experiences With Referrals to Mental Health Services in Canada: Protocol for a Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Youth mental health is an important public health concern affecting low-, middle-, and high-income countries, and many young people in need of mental health services do not receive the care they need when they need it. An early step in accessing mental health care is the referral process, yet most of the research done on pathways to care has focused on clinical populations (eg, first-episode psychosis) recruited from mental health care settings. There has been limited research attention on the experiences of referral to mental health services from the perspectives of youth recruited from the general population who may or may not have received the services they need.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the experiences that youth between the ages of 17 and 30 y

SUBMITTER: Lal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7139421 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature