Citation

Bruckner TA, Kim Y, Lubens P, Singh A, Snowden L, Chakravarthy B. Adm. Policy Ment. Health 2015; 43(1): 44-51.

Affiliation

Program in Public Health & Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine, 300 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA, 92697-7075, USA, tim.bruckner@uci.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10488-014-0619-4

PMID

25573077

Abstract

Much literature documents elevated psychiatric symptoms among adults after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11). We, however, know of no research in children that examines emergency mental health services following 9/11. We test whether children's emergency services for crisis mental health care rose above expected values in September 2001. We applied time-series methods to California Medicaid claims (1999-2003; N = 127,200 visits).

FINDINGS in California indicate an 8.7 % increase of children's emergency mental health visits statistically attributable to 9/11. Non-Hispanic white more than African American children account for this acute rise in emergency services.

Language: en