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Title: Probability of Children's Treatment for Depression, Conditional on Symptomology, as a Function of Socioeconomic Status
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Zimmerman, Frederick J. |
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Probability of Children's Treatment for Depression, Conditional on Symptomology, as a Function of Socioeconomic Status Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Public Health Association 130th Annual Meeting, November 2002 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Children; Children, Mental Health; Depression (see also CESD); Health Care; Health, Mental/Psychological; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Considerable evidence exists to suggest disparities in how individuals with similar symptoms of depression are treated. These disparities in treatment are correlated with the individual's socioeconomic status (SES), viz., income, access to care, education, and race/ethnicity. Such SES-related differences in treatment in treatment are particularly disturbing where they have been shown to exist for children, for whom the long-term effects of untreated depression on subsequent mental health and educational outcomes are especially damaging. However, more research is needed to determine the sources of such differences, which could include individual preferences or perceptions of stigma, individual income- or access-constraints or even disparate treatment by providers. This research uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's Children and Young Adult supplement to test competing hypotheses about the reasons for disparate treatment for depression in children. The longitudinal quality of the data will be exploited in a multivariate, fixed-effects analysis to develop causal insights into the relationships between SES and treatment for depression. Specifically, the analysis will test whether parental income, education and race/ethnicity are determinative of treatment for depression conditional on symptom level and access to care. This project is currently in the planning stage, and results will be available by November, 2002. |
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Zimmerman, Frederick J. "Probability of Children's Treatment for Depression, Conditional on Symptomology, as a Function of Socioeconomic Status." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Public Health Association 130th Annual Meeting, November 2002. |