Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs

Ambulatory Pediatrics : the Official Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
Stacey C DusingMichelle L Mayer

Abstract

To estimate the prevalence of unmet needs for therapy services, vision and hearing care or aids, mobility aids, and communication aids and to investigate the association between predisposing, enabling, need, and environmental factors and unmet needs. Using the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, we generated national prevalence estimates and performed bivariate and logistic analyses, accounting for the complex survey design. Nationally, the prevalence of unmet needs ranged from 5.8% among children with special health care needs (CSHCN) with a reported need for vision care or glasses to 24.7% among CSHCN with a reported need for communication aids. In logit analyses, CSHCN without insurance coverage were significantly more likely to have a reported unmet need for therapy services (adjusted odds ratio [OR]: 2.08, confidence interval [CI]: 1.39-3.12), vision care or glasses (OR: 3.94, CI: 2.64-5.86), and mobility aids (OR: 5.17, CI: 1.86-14.37). Children in families at or below 100% of the federal poverty level were significantly more likely to have a reported unmet need for vision care or glasses (OR: 4.51, CI: 2.86-7.12) and hearing aids or hearing care (OR: 3.61, CI: 1.70-7.65). For each of the services ...Continue Reading

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