Trends and Geographic Availability of Emergency Psychiatric Walk-In and Crisis Services in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Serious mental illness places a considerable burden on the mental health service system in the United States. To date, no research has examined the availability of psychiatric emergency walk-in and crisis services. The goal of this study was to examine temporal trends, geographic variation, and characteristics of psychiatric facilities that provide emergency psychiatric walk-in and crisis services across the United States.

Methods

The authors used cross-sectional, annually collected data covering the 2014-2018 period from the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS), a representative survey of both public and private mental health treatment facilities in the United States.

Results

Overall, 42.6% of all U.S. mental health facilities did not offer any m

SUBMITTER: Kalb LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature