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- Title
Mental Health Service Use Among High School Students Exposed to Interpersonal Violence.
- Authors
Green, Jennifer Greif; Johnson, Renee M.; Dunn, Erin C.; Lindsey, Michael; Xuan, Ziming; Zaslavsky, Alan M.
- Abstract
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Violence-exposed youth rarely receive mental health services, even though exposure increases risk for academic and psychosocial problems. This study examines the association between violence exposure and mental health service contact. The 4 forms of violence exposure were peer, family, sexual, and witnessing. METHODS Data are from 1534 Boston public high school students who participated in a 2008 self-report survey of violence exposure and its correlates. Multivariate logistic regressions estimated associations between each form of violence with service contact, then examined whether associations persisted when controlling for suicidality and self-injurious behaviors. RESULTS In unadjusted models, violence-exposed students more often reported service contact than their peers. However, in multivariate models, only exposure to family (odds ratio [ OR] = 1.69, 95% confidence interval [ CI] = 1.23-2.31) and sexual violence ( OR = 2.34, 95% CI = 1.29-4.20) were associated with service contact. Associations attenuated when controlling for suicidality and self-injurious behaviors, indicating they were largely explained by self-harm. Sexual violence alone remained associated with mental health service contact in fully adjusted models, but only for girls ( OR=3.32, 95% CI=1.30-8.45), suggesting sex-specific pathways. CONCLUSIONS Associations between adolescent violence exposure and mental health service contact vary by forms of exposure. Outreach to a broader set of exposed youth may reduce the impact of violence and its consequences for vulnerable students.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY of high school students; MENTAL health services; RESEARCH funding; SELF-evaluation; STATISTICS; SURVEYS; VIOLENCE; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of School Health, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
0022-4391
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/josh.12125