Targeting mental health care attributes by diagnosis and clinical stage: the views of youth mental health clinicians

Abstract

Objectives: To explore the potential utility of clinical stage and mental disorder categories as a basis for determining which attributes of youth mental health care should be offered to which groups of young people. Methods: In June 2017, we conducted an online survey of youth mental health clinicians that collected information on the participants’ background and areas of expertise, then presented vignettes describing young people with different stages of six mental disorders (disorder-based vignettes were matched to participants’ area of expertise). For each vignette, participants were asked to give a quantitative estimate of the proportion of young people with similar mental health proble..