Mental Health Service Utilization among Black Youth; Psychosocial Determinants in a National Sample
Abstract
:1. Background
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design and Setting
2.2. Ethical Considerations
2.3. Participants and Sampling
2.4. Data Collection
2.5. Survey Measures
2.6. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Gender | Ethnicity | |||||||||||||||||||
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All | Males | Females | African Americans (AA) | Caribbean Blacks (CB) | ||||||||||||||||
% | SE | 95% CI | % | SE | 95% CI | % | SE | 95% CI | % | SE | 95% CI | % | SE | 95% CI | ||||||
Gender | ||||||||||||||||||||
Male | 50.02 | 0.02 | 46.49 | 53.54 | 50.39 | 0.02 | 46.57 | 54.20 | 44.78 | 0.02 | 39.98 | 49.68 | ||||||||
Female | 49.98 | 0.02 | 46.46 | 53.51 | 49.61 | 0.02 | 45.80 | 53.43 | 55.22 | 0.02 | 50.32 | 60.02 | ||||||||
Ethnicity | ||||||||||||||||||||
AA | 93.37 | 0.01 | 91.89 | 94.60 | 94.07 | 0.01 | 92.69 | 95.20 | 92.68 | 0.01 | 90.64 | 0.94.31 | ||||||||
CB | 6.63 | 0.01 | 5.40 | 8.11 | 5.93 | 0.01 | 4.80 | 7.31 | 7.32 | 0.01 | 5.69 | 0.09.36 | ||||||||
Age | 14.98 | 0.06 | 14.86 | 15.10 | 14.98 | 0.07 | 14.84 | 15.12 | 14.98 | 0.09 | 14.80 | 15.15 | 14.96 | 0.07 | 14.83 | 15.10 | 15.22 | 0.06 | 15.09 | 15.35 |
OR (SE) | 95% CI | p-Value | |
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Demographics | |||
Ethnicity | 0.33 (0.11) | 0.17–0.65 | 0.002 |
Gender (Females) | 1.23 (0.31) | 0.74–2.03 | 0.411 |
Age | 0.96 (0.14) | 0.72–1.28 | 0.770 |
Socioeconomics | |||
Poverty Index | 0.94 (0.08) | 0.78–1.12 | 0.458 |
Subjective Socioeconomic Status | 1.43 (0.19) | 1.09–1.88 | 0.010 |
Mental Health | |||
Any Psychiatric Disorders | 2.17 (0.78) | 1.05–4.48 | 0.037 |
Poor Self-Rated Health | 2.45 (1.16) | 1.00–6.37 | 0.050 |
Intercept | 0.04 (0.08) | 0.00–3.78 | 0.157 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleAssari, Shervin, and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell. 2017. "Mental Health Service Utilization among Black Youth; Psychosocial Determinants in a National Sample" Children 4, no. 5: 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/children4050040
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