Influence of mental health and alcohol or other drug use risk on adolescent reported care received in primary care settings

Lisa S Meredith, Brett A Ewing, Bradley D Stein, William G Shadel, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Layla Parast, Elizabeth J D'Amico, Lisa S Meredith, Brett A Ewing, Bradley D Stein, William G Shadel, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Layla Parast, Elizabeth J D'Amico

Abstract

Background: To describe patterns of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use risk and adolescent reported primary care (PC) screening and intervention, and examine associations of AOD risk and mental health with reported care received.

Methods: We analyzed data from cross-sectional surveys collected from April 3, 2013 to November 24, 2015 from 1279 diverse adolescents ages 12-18 who reported visiting a doctor at least once in the past year. Key measures were AOD risk using the Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; mental health using the 5-item Mental Health Inventory; binary measures of adolescent-reported screening and intervention.

Results: Half (49.2%) of the adolescents reported past year AOD use. Of the 769 (60.1%) of adolescents that reported being asked by a medical provider in PC about AOD use, only 37.2% reported receiving screening/intervention. The odds of reported screening/intervention were significantly higher for adolescents with higher AOD risk and lower mental health scores.

Conclusions: Adolescents at risk for AOD use and poor mental health are most likely to benefit from brief intervention. These findings suggest that strategies are needed to facilitate medical providers identification of need for counseling of both AOD and mental health care for at risk youth.

Trials registration: clinicaltrials.gov , Identifier: NCT01797835, March 2013.

Keywords: Adolescents; Primary care; Screening and brief intervention.

Conflict of interest statement

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Data for this study were collected with approval from the RAND Corporation’s Institutional Review Board in Santa Monica, CA, the Human Subjects Protection Committee. We obtained permission from the 3 clinics in Pittsburgh and the clinic in Los Angeles and then they deferred ethics approval and consent to the RAND IRB. For interested adolescents, we obtained parental consent and assent (if under 18) or consent if 18.

Consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Figures

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Patterns of Past Year Adolescent Reported AOD Care (Screening and Intervention) Received by Medical Providers
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Adolescent Reported Care Received by AOD Risk Group*

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