Variables Associated With Perceived Unmet Need for Mental Health Care in a Canadian Epidemiologic Catchment Area

Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association
Marie-Josée FleuryJean Caron

Abstract

This study identified variables associated with perceived partially met and unmet needs for information, medication, and counseling, as well as overall perceived unmet needs, related to mental health among 571 people in a Canadian epidemiologic catchment area. Needs were measured with the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire and a comprehensive set of independent variables based on Andersen's behavioral model. Four models were constructed for the following dependent variables: perceived unmet needs for information, medication, and counseling (multinomial logistic regression) and overall perceived unmet needs (multiple logistic regression). The proportions reporting fully unmet need were as follows: counseling, 30%; information, 18%; and medication, 4%. Variables associated with unmet needs for information, medication, and counseling were quite distinct. Enabling factors (for example, neighborhood perception variables) were strongly associated with perceived unmet need for information. Need factors were more strongly associated with unmet need for medication, predisposing factors with unmet needs for information and medication, and health service use with unmet information and counseling needs. People whose overall needs went u...Continue Reading

Citations

Oct 21, 2016·BMC Health Services Research·Marie-Josée FleuryGeneviève Cyr
Oct 5, 2017·The Psychiatric Quarterly·Marie-Josée FleuryFrançois Chiocchio
Nov 12, 2016·Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie·Rob WhitleyJean Caron
Jan 19, 2019·The International Journal of Health Planning and Management·Lisa CorscaddenStephanie M Topp
Jan 30, 2019·Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association·Nicolas FranckJulien Dubreucq
Jul 19, 2019·Public Health Nursing·Yi-Lin HsiehJing-Shia Tang
Mar 7, 2019·Frontiers in Psychiatry·Mary WiktorowiczSheila A Boamah
Aug 24, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Béatrice SimoMarie-Josée Fleury
Dec 22, 2019·Community Mental Health Journal·Claudie Loranger, Marie-Josée Fleury
Oct 1, 2020·International Journal for Equity in Health·Eva RensKris Van den Broeck
Aug 14, 2019·General Hospital Psychiatry·Marie-Josée FleuryAlain Lesage

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