ADOLESCENTS COMPLIANCE WITH MENTAL HEALTH REFFERALS

Autor:	Angela Diaz, Annie Steinberg, Lorena Siqueira, Sanford M. Melzer, Leslie R. Jaffe, Richard Wortman
Rok vydání:	1987
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Referral business.industry Primary care Affect (psychology) Mental health Compliance (psychology) Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Psychiatry business Depression (differential diagnoses) Adolescent health
Zdroj:	Pediatric Research. 21:175A-175A
ISSN:	1530-0447 0031-3998
DOI:	10.1203/00006450-198704010-00056
Popis:	The purpose of this study was to elucidate factors which contribute to adolescents' compliance with mental health referrals. Fifty-seven Black and Hispanic inner-city youth ages 11-20 (mean=16.1), attending a comprehensive adolescent health clinic, were referred by 5 primary care physicians for counseling services. At the time of referral, both the physician and patient completed questionnaires: the patient's questionnaire included the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). Initial counseling appointments were kept (compliance) by 43.1% (24) of the patients. Females were significantly more compliant (21 of 42) than males (3 of 15) (X2-4.08; p
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