New Mental Health Diseases and Conditions Findings from Drexel University Outlined (State Policies That Impact the Design of Children’s Mental Health Services: a Modified Delphi Study): Mental Health Diseases and Conditions

2022 JUL 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Mental Health Diseases and Conditions is now available. According to news reporting originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To identify the state-level policies and policy domains that state policymakers and advocates perceive as most important for positively impacting the use of children’s mental health services (CMHS). We used a modified Delphi technique (i.e., two rounds of questionnaires and an interview) during Spring 2021 to elicit perceptions among state mental health agency officials and advocates (n = 28) from twelve states on state policies that impact the use of CMHS.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Drexel University, “Participants rated a list of pre-specified policies on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = not important, 7 = extremely important) in the following policy domains: insurance coverage and limits, mental health services, school and social. Participants added nine policies to the initial list of 24 policies. The ‘school’ policy domain was perceived as the most important, while the ‘social’ policy domain was perceived as the least important after the first questionnaire and the second most important policy domain after the second questionnaire. The individual policies perceived as most important were school-based mental health services, state mental health parity, and Medicaid reimbursement rates.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Key stakeholders in CMHS should leverage this group of policies to understand the current policy landscape in their state and to identify gaps in policy domains and potential policy opportunities to create a more comprehensive system to address children’s mental health from a holistic, evidence-based policymaking perspective.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: State Policies That Impact the Design of Children’s Mental Health Services: a Modified Delphi Study. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2022. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States. (Springer - www.springer.com; Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0894-587x/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Katherine L. Nelson, Drexel University, Dept. of Health Management and Policy, Dornsife Sch Publ Hlth, 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. Additional authors for this research include Brent Langellier, Byron J. Powell, Felice Le-Scherban, Paul Shattuck, Kimberly Hoagwood and Jonathan Purtle.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-022-01201-6. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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