Child and adolescent mental health care in Dutch general practice: time trend analyses

BMC Primary Care

Table 7 Referrals to primary or secondary mental health care in 2008, specified per mental health problem

	Mental health problems (P01-P99)	Anxiety (P01, P74)	Depression (P03, P76)	Overactivity (P21)
N patients	3157	251	145	500
Any referral to mental health care
0-12 years	18.93	33.98	33.33	20.62
13-18 years	22.94	27.03	43.48	11.43
Primary mental health care
0-12 years	3.00	7.77	13.33	2.46
13-18 years	6.07	9.46	14.78	1.14
Social work
0-12 years	0.24	0.00	3.33	0.00
13-18 years	1.04	0.68	3.48	0.00
Primary care psychologist
0-12 years	2.76	7.77	10.00	2.46
13-18 years	4.74	8.11	12.17	1.14
Social psychiatric nurse
0-12 years	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
13-18 years	0.38	0.68	0.00	0.00
Secondary mental health care
0-12 years	15.98	26.21	20.00	18.15
13-18 years	17.44	19.59	31.30	10.29
Psychotherapist
0-12 years	4.47	7.77	6.67	0.92
13-18 years	6.07	7.43	10.43	1.14
Psychiatrist
0-12 years	8.28	14.56	10.00	12.00
13-18 years	7.58	8.11	11.30	6.29
Ambulatory mental health care org.
0-12 years	3.43	3.88	3.33	5.54
13-18 years	3.70	4.73	9.57	2.29
Organisation for addiction treatment
0-12 years	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
13-18 years	0.28	0.00	0.00	0.57

Percentages of children and adolescents who were referred to primary or secondary mental health care providers are reported. Referrals for alcohol abuse are not reported, because of the low prevalence of alcohol abuse in this sample (see Table 2).

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