International journal of psychiatry in medicine
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Int J Psychiatry Med · Jan 2010
Multicenter StudyScreening to identify mental health problems in pediatric primary care: considerations for practice.
Few pediatric primary care providers routinely use mental health screening tools, in part because they may have concerns about whether screening is useful and how it will affect their practice. This study examined the extent to which screening in primary care would increase the identification of mental health problems among a diverse population of children and youth. ⋯ Screening substantially increased the number of children and youth who would be identified as possibly having a mental health problem. Screening may have the most potential to increase the identification of problems among patients who have moderate mental health symptoms and those who are African American or Latino.