Perceived need and barriers to adolescent mental health care: agreement between adolescents and their parents.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Mental disorders cause high burden in adolescents, but adolescents often underutilise potentially beneficial treatments. Perceived need for and barriers to care may influence whether adolescents utilise services and which treatments they receive. Adolescents and parents are stakeholders in adolescent mental health care, but their perceptions regarding need for and barriers to care might differ. Understanding patterns of adolescent-parent agreement might help identify gaps in adolescent mental health care.

Methods

A nationally representative sample of Australian adolescents aged 13-17 and their parents (N = 2310), recruited between 2013-2014, were asked about perceived need for four types of adolescent mental health care (counselling, medication, information and skill tr

SUBMITTER: Schnyder N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061128 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature