Racial/Ethnic disparities in the mental health care utilization of fifth grade children.
Racial/Ethnic disparities in the mental health care utilization of fifth grade children.
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2009
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Coker, Tumaini R and Elliott, Marc N and Kataoka, Sheryl and Schwebel, David C and Mrug, Sylvie and Grunbaum, Jo Anne and Cuccaro, Paula and Peskin, Melissa F and Schuster, Mark A (2009) Racial/Ethnic disparities in the mental health care utilization of fifth grade children. Academic pediatrics, 9 (2). pp. 89-96.
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Disparities exist in mental health care utilization for black and Hispanic children; the disparity for black children is independent of sociodemographics and child mental health need. Efforts to reduce this disparity may benefit from addressing not only access and diagnosis issues, but also parents' help-seeking preferences for mental health care for their children.