Children's use of psychosocial care in a population-based longitudinal study: less likely for girls, children with a non-Western background and children with a high quality of life.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge on determinants of children's psychosocial care use is important to improve their access to care. This study examined the independent contributions of need and predisposing factors to psychosocial care use in 9-year-old children, guided by the Gateway Provider Model. Data of the Generation R Study, a prospective cohort of children born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, were analysed using multivariable logistic regression (n = 4714). Need (quality of life, presence and type of emotional/behavioural problems) and predisposing factors (sex, ethnic background and maternal educational level) were measured using parent questionnaires at multiple time points between ages 1.5 and 9 years. Psychosocial care use was parent-reported at 9 years old (9.6% among children with Western background,

SUBMITTER: Eijgermans DGM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature