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- Title
Screening Incarcerated Juveniles Using the MAYSI-2.
- Authors
Gilbert, Amy L.; Grande, Todd L.; Hallman, Janelle; Underwood, Lee A.
- Abstract
The high prevalence of mental health disorders among incarcerated juveniles is a matter of national and global concern. Juvenile justice personnel need accurate screening measures that identify youth requiring immediate mental health services. The purpose of this study was threefold: (a) to examine the utility of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, Version 2 (MAYSI-2) in identifying juveniles with mental health concerns in a large sample of juveniles (N = 4,009), (b) to provide data regarding rates of identified mental health needs in incarcerated youth, and (c) to provide descriptive comparisons to other studies using the MAYSI-2. Mean scores of subscales were compared with the MAYSI-2 normative samples and other recent studies. Results indicated that this population has a high occurrence of mental health symptoms and there is high variability in the severity of the symptoms. In addition, a multivariate analysis of variance test found significant differences in mental health problems across ethnic groups.
- Subjects
PSYCHIATRIC epidemiology; ANALYSIS of variance; EXPERIMENTAL design; INTERVIEWING; JUVENILE delinquency; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL screening; MULTIVARIATE analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Correctional Health Care, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1078-3458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1078345814557788