Unmet Care Needs of Children with ADHD

To improve
our understanding of receiving treatment in specialized mental health care, we
studied unmet care needs of children with ADHD.
Because care needs may vary depending on the intensity of care we included patients who had been referred
to an outpatient mental healthcare setting, or to a setting providing youth
Assertive Community Treatment (youth-ACT). This comparison enabled us to judge the influence of
severity of psychiatric and psychosocial problems on unmet care need. Further, since parents
are involved differently in younger versus older children, we investigated unmet care needs in two age groups: primary
school children and adolescents.