Utilisation and costs of mental health-related service use among adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high level of care needs for adolescents with mental health conditions represents a challenge to the public sector, especially in low and middle-income countries. We estimated the costs to the public purse of health, education, criminal justice and social care service use associated with psychiatric conditions among adolescents in Brazil; and examined whether the trajectory of psychopathology and its impact on daily life, and parental stigma towards mental illness, was associated with service utilisation and costs.

Methods

Data on reported service use among adolescents from a prospective community cohort (n = 1,400) were combined with Brazilian unit costs. Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to examine factors associated with service us

SUBMITTER: Ziebold C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9462733 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature