Search for mental health care for children is often fruitless [BostonGlobe.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/11/174:00 AM

Harvard researchers posing as the parent of a depressed 12-year-old called hundreds of child psychiatrists and pediatricians looking for appointments, and discovered what many actual parents know through bitter experience: Most of the time the calls were fruitless.

The group phoned 913 doctors listed as network providers by Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations in Boston, Chapel Hill, N.C., Houston, Minneapolis, and Seattle. After two attempts, they were able to get an appointment with a pediatrician 40 percent of the time and with a psychiatrist a meager 17 percent, according to the study published Tuesday in the International Journal of Health Services.

[For more of this story, written by Liz Kowalczyk, go to https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...wJTChObpO/story.html]

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