Patulny Roger, Muir Kristy, Powell Abigail, Flaxman Saul, Oprea Ioana
Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Level 2 Goodsell Building, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2013 May;18(2):95-102. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00662.x. Epub 2012 Apr 4.
Australian young people have a high prevalence of mental health problems but low rates of service use. This article examines whether the Australian National Youth Mental Health Foundation, headspace, has helped redress this through providing youth-specific services.
The article compares headspace service use demographics with population data from the Australian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2007.
Headspace has improved access relative to the population, particularly among males and socially and economically excluded young people.
Despite overall successes, certain ethnic and age groups appear under-represented and in need of more careful targeting by youth mental health services.
澳大利亚年轻人心理健康问题的患病率很高，但接受服务的比例却很低。本文探讨澳大利亚国家青少年心理健康基金会“心灵空间”是否通过提供针对青少年的服务，帮助纠正了这一状况。
本文将“心灵空间”服务使用者的人口统计数据与2007年澳大利亚心理健康与幸福调查中的人口数据进行了比较。
相对于总体人群，“心灵空间”改善了服务可及性，尤其是在男性以及社会和经济上被排斥的年轻人中。
尽管总体上取得了成功，但某些种族和年龄组的代表性似乎不足，青少年心理健康服务需要对其进行更精准的定位。
