Carolina Ziebold1, Wagner Silva-Ribeiro1,2, Derek King2, David McDaid2, Mauricio Scopel Hoffmann2,3,4,5, Renee Romeo6, Pedro Mario Pan1,5, Eurípedes Constantino Miguel5,7, Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan1,5, Luis Augusto Rohde5,8,9, Giovanni Abrahão Salum5,9, Jair de Jesus Mari1,5, Sara Evans-Lacko2. 1. Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 2. Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom. 3. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil. 4. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 5. National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents, São Paulo, Brazil. 6. King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 7. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 8. ADHD Outpatient Program & Developmental Psychiatry Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. 9. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The high level of care needs for adolescents with mental health conditions represents a challenge to the public sector, especially in low and middle-income countries. We estimated the costs to the public purse of health, education, criminal justice and social care service use associated with psychiatric conditions among adolescents in Brazil; and examined whether the trajectory of psychopathology and its impact on daily life, and parental stigma towards mental illness, was associated with service utilisation and costs. METHODS: Data on reported service use among adolescents from a prospective community cohort (n = 1,400) were combined with Brazilian unit costs. Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to examine factors associated with service use and associated costs, respectively. RESULTS: Twenty-two percent of those who presented with a psychiatric disorder used some type of service for their mental health in the previous twelve months. Higher odds of service use were associated with having a diagnosed mental disorder (either incident, [OR = 2.49, 95%CI = 1.44-4.30, p = 0.001], remittent [OR = 2.16, 95%CI = 1.27-3.69, p = 0.005] or persistent [OR = 3.01, 95%CI = 1.69-5.36, p<0.001]), higher impact of symptoms on adolescent's life (OR = 1.32, 95%CI = 1.19-1.47, p<0.001) and lower parental stigma toward mental illness (OR = 1.12, 95%CI = 1.05-1.20, p = 0.001). Average annual cost of service use was 527.14 USD (s.d. = 908.10). Higher cost was associated with higher disorder impact (β = 0.25, 95%CI = 0.12-0.39, p<0.001), lower parental stigma (β = 0.12, 95%CI = 0.02-0.23, p = 0.020) and white ethnicity (β = 0.55, 95%CI = 0.04-1.07, p = 0.036). CONCLUSION: The impact of mental health problems on adolescents' daily lives and parental stigmatising attitudes toward mental illness were the main predictors of both service use and costs.
BACKGROUND: The high level of care needs for adolescents with mental health conditions represents a challenge to the public sector, especially in low and middle-income countries. We estimated the costs to the public purse of health, education, criminal justice and social care service use associated with psychiatric conditions among adolescents in Brazil; and examined whether the trajectory of psychopathology and its impact on daily life, and parental stigma towards mental illness, was associated with service utilisation and costs. METHODS: Data on reported service use among adolescents from a prospective community cohort (n = 1,400) were combined with Brazilian unit costs. Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to examine factors associated with service use and associated costs, respectively. RESULTS: Twenty-two percent of those who presented with a psychiatric disorder used some type of service for their mental health in the previous twelve months. Higher odds of service use were associated with having a diagnosed mental disorder (either incident, [OR = 2.49, 95%CI = 1.44-4.30, p = 0.001], remittent [OR = 2.16, 95%CI = 1.27-3.69, p = 0.005] or persistent [OR = 3.01, 95%CI = 1.69-5.36, p<0.001]), higher impact of symptoms on adolescent's life (OR = 1.32, 95%CI = 1.19-1.47, p<0.001) and lower parental stigma toward mental illness (OR = 1.12, 95%CI = 1.05-1.20, p = 0.001). Average annual cost of service use was 527.14 USD (s.d. = 908.10). Higher cost was associated with higher disorder impact (β = 0.25, 95%CI = 0.12-0.39, p<0.001), lower parental stigma (β = 0.12, 95%CI = 0.02-0.23, p = 0.020) and white ethnicity (β = 0.55, 95%CI = 0.04-1.07, p = 0.036). CONCLUSION: The impact of mental health problems on adolescents' daily lives and parental stigmatising attitudes toward mental illness were the main predictors of both service use and costs.
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