Parent and Provider Perspectives on Recently Incarcerated Youths' Access to Healthcare During Community Reentry.

ABSTRACT: Incarcerated youth have numerous healthcare needs, yet access to healthcare following community reentry is limited. Healthcare and juvenile justice providers, along with parents, strongly influence access to care for youth undergoing reentry. However, their perspectives are often missing from the literature. We examined parent and provider perspectives on youths' access to healthcare during community reentry. We conducted 72 longitudinal interviews with parents of youth undergoing reentry (n= 34 parents) and cross-sectional interviews with health and juvenile justice providers (n=20 providers). We performed inductive analysis of interview transcripts to identify the major themes related to access to healthcare during reentry. Respondents identified key leverage points that influence access

SUBMITTER: Barnert ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8145947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature