Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Meichun Mohler-Kuo; Jen Wang; Michelle Dey; Anthony F. Jorm
- Source
- Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
- Subject
- Male
Parents
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Social Psychology
Adolescent
Epidemiology
media_common.quotation_subject
610 Medicine & health
Health literacy
Race and health
Severity of Illness Index
Literacy
2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cost of Illness
Health care
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
media_common
3207 Social Psychology
business.industry
4. Education
Mental Disorders
10060 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI)
Health Services
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Mental health
Health equity
3. Good health
030227 psychiatry
Health Literacy
Psychiatry and Mental health
Family medicine
Health education
Female
Perception
3306 Health (social science)
business
Switzerland
2713 Epidemiology
- Language
- English
PURPOSE: To compare children with mental and physical health problems regarding (1) perceived disease severity; (2) the impact of their condition on their families; (3) their utilization of health care services (including satisfaction with care); and (4) parents' health literacy about their child's condition and its treatment. Furthermore we examined whether parents' health literacy differs between types of mental health condition. METHODS: Parental reports about their 9 to 14 year old children with mental (n = 785) or physical health problems (n = 475) were analyzed from the population based National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs in Switzerland. RESULTS: Mental health problems were perceived as being more severe (p