Impact of Mental Health Insurance Legislation on Mental Health Treatment in a Longitudinal Sample of Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health insurance laws are intended to improve access to needed treatments and prevent discrimination in coverage for mental health conditions and other medical conditions.

Objectives

The aim was to estimate the impact of these policies on mental health treatment utilization in a nationally representative longitudinal sample of youth followed through adulthood.

Methods

We used data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Mental Health Insurance Laws data set. We specified a zero-inflated negative binomial regression model to estimate the relationship between mental health treatment utilization and law exposure while controlling for other explanatory variables.

Results

We found that the number of mental health treatment visit

SUBMITTER: Heboyan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8425633 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature