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. 2023 Nov;68(11):819-825.
doi: 10.1177/07067437231182059. Epub 2023 Jun 26.

Surveillance of Child and Youth Mental Disorders and Associated Service Use in Canada

Jordan Edwards  1   2 , Paul Kurdyak  3   4 , Charlotte Waddell  5 , Scott B Patten  6 , Graham J Reid  7   8 , Leslie Anne Campbell  9 , Katholiki Georgiades  1   2
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Surveillance of Child and Youth Mental Disorders and Associated Service Use in Canada

Jordan Edwards et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2023 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: administrative data; child and adolescent psychiatry; community mental health services; data linkage; epidemiology; mental health services; methods; population-level surveys; surveillance.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: While we declare no competing interests, it is important to disclose that two authors on this article are members of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. This includes Dr. Patten as the Editor Emeritus and Dr. Kurdyak as an Associate Editor.

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Figure 1.
Using population surveys and health administrative data to monitor child and youth mental disorders and associated service use. The three boxes present the strengths and limitations of (a) general population surveys; (b) health administrative data; and (c) the linkage between these two data sources to monitor child and youth mental disorders and associated service use. The Venn diagram in the centre describes a theoretical estimate of different proportions of the population of children and youth (depicted as overlapping circles). The outer circle of the diagram (green) describes the entire population of interest, and the inner circles reflect samples of children and youth ascertained through the various data collection methodologies. The yellow circle represents general population survey samples, and the blue circle represents population health administrative data samples. The red overlapping circle represents the sample of the total population of interest with a mental disorder that is captured to varying degrees by general population survey sampling and population health administrative data.
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