Assessing Primary Care Contributions to Behavioral Health: A Cross-sectional Study Using Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess primary care contributions to behavioral health in addressing unmet mental healthcare needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Secondary data analysis of 2016 to 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey of non-institutionalized US adults. We performed bivariate analysis to estimate the number and percentage of office-based visits and prescription medications for depression and anxiety disorders, any mental illness (AMI), and severe mental illness (AMI) by physician specialty (primary care, psychiatry, and subspecialty) and medical complexity. We ran summary statistics to compare the differences in sociodemographic factors between patients with AMI by seeing a primary care physician versus those seeing a psychiatrist. Binary logistic regression models wer

SUBMITTER: Jetty A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8202306 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature