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Principal Investigator: Richard
Hough
Funding: NIMH (8/96-7/01, $8,049,380)
Overview: The main purpose of the "Patterns
of Care" (POC) study is to examine the pathways into
and through public services sectors of care and short-term
outcomes for youths with or at high risk for significant mental
health problems. Along with examination of pathways to services,
the study also: 1) identifies patterns of single and multiple
sector use and the types and prevalence of mental health and
social dysfunction problems; 2) examines the relationship
of types and severity of mental and behavioral problems to
patterns of services over time; and 3) examines the relationship
to risk and protective factors to mental health and behavioral
problems and patterns of services used over time.
Study Design: The POC study employed a two-year longitudinal
study design. Participants in the POC study consist of 1715
youths (ages 6-18 years of age) who were selected by a simple
random sample of open cases in five San Diego County public
service sectors (mental health, alcohol and drug, public school
programs for the seriously emotionally disturbed (SED), child
welfare and juvenile justice) during the last six months of
County fiscal year 1996-1997.
Status:
- Wave I in-person interviews began October 1997 and ended
in January 1999. 1,642 interviews were completed with parents
or caregivers and 1,510 with youth ages 6 to 18. Data was
gathered on a total of 1,715 youth.
- At 6-month intervals, telephone follow up interviews were
conducted. At each of the three intervals, 6-months; 12-months
and 18-months we had a 90% completion rate.
- Wave II of in-person interviewing began November 1999
and were completed in May 2001. Data has been gathered so
far on 92% of the youth from baseline. To date 2,888 interviews
have been completed. Eighty-five percent of those interviews
constitute complete dyads (both the adult and youth were
interviewed).
Link to the Patterns of Care Presentation
at the NIMH Conference on Research Approaches to Early Treatment
and Prevention of Mental Disorders for Minority Children and
Adolescents (July 2001)
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2007
CASRC