Child Sex Differences in Primary Care Clinicians' Mental Health Care of Children and Adolescents

Abstract

There are substantial sex differences in the mental health care of children in the primary care system.

The predictive value of the pediatric symptom checklist in 5-year-old Austrian children

“…Likewise, the cut-off sensitivity and specificity for this study was primarily low and therefore the cut-off was optimized to 15.5 using ROC analysis. These results correspond well to the orders of magnitude found in the small number of studies available for this age group [4,9,15]. For this age group Gardner et al [4] calculated PSC sensitivity, also using ROC analysis, and obtained, for a cut-off at 15, a sensitivity of 82.1 and specificity of 81, which corresponds approximately to our results.…”

“…These results correspond well to the orders of magnitude found in the small number of studies available for this age group [4,9,15]. For this age group Gardner et al [4] calculated PSC sensitivity, also using ROC analysis, and obtained, for a cut-off at 15, a sensitivity of 82.1 and specificity of 81, which corresponds approximately to our results. Jutte et al [10] likewise found-however for older children-a low sensitivity at a cut-off of 24 (7.4%) and were able to obtain a specificity of 94 and a sensitivity of 74 after ROC analysis and cut-off optimization to 12.…”

Follow-up care of children identified with ADHD by primary care clinicians: A prospective cohort study

“…15,19 Several primary care research networks participated in the CBS: Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network, Pediatric Research in Office Settings, the Wisconsin Research Network, and the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. CBS patients and clinicians resemble those in national samples.…”

Screening for adolescent alcohol and drug use in pediatric health-care settings: predictors and implications for practice and policy

“…A US survey of PCP screening of adults found that most primarily screen pregnant women and patients suspected of having a problem [67]. Gender differences have been found in how other psychosocial problems are diagnosed [68,69], and some studies suggest that female patients are less likely to be screened than male [70-72]. Older adolescents are more likely to be screened than younger [73,74].…”