Differences Between Users and Professionals in Preferences for Youth Mental Health Service Attributes: A Discrete Choice Experiment

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 PSYCHIATRY Early Intervention in Psychiatry Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI:10.1111/eip.70012

Eline Wittevrongel, Roselinde Kessels, Geert Everaert, May Vrijens, Marina Danckaerts, Ruud van Winkel

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Abstract

Introduction

Previous work showed that young people prefer youth-oriented mental health services that offer individual help in houses in urban areas, with short wait times and low costs. The present paper aims to examine which service options professionals working in social welfare or mental health services prefer for addressing young people's mental health needs, comparing their views with those of young people.

Methods

Professionals (N = 176) and youth aged 16–24 years (N = 258) participated in a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Panel mixed logit (PML) models were used in both stakeholder groups to ascertain relative differences in attribute weights. We also estimated an overall PML model incorporating the effect of stakeholder group on the attributes.

Results

Professionals found the attributes ‘cost’ and ‘wait times’ most relevant to young people's mental health service needs, indicating a preference for services characterised by affordability and minimal wait periods. In contrast, young people adhered more importance to the attribute ‘format’ (individual rather than group therapy). Furthermore, professionals considered a café or youth centre the most suitable location for a service, rather than a house in the city, and they disfavoured care provision by professionals in adult mental health services more than young people did. Finally, the attributes ‘peer support’, ‘opening hours’ and ‘anonymity’ were deemed relevant by professionals but not by young people.

Conclusion

The perspectives of both professionals and young people offer a unique point of view on care provision, stressing the importance of integrating them in preference-based research and service design.

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Early Intervention in Psychiatry 医学-精神病学

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4.80

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5.00%

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112

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Early Intervention in Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews dealing with the early recognition, diagnosis and treatment across the full range of mental and substance use disorders, as well as the underlying epidemiological, biological, psychological and social mechanisms that influence the onset and early course of these disorders. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of early intervention for the full range of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems, including schizophrenia and other psychoses, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders. Papers in any of the following fields are considered: diagnostic issues, psychopathology, clinical epidemiology, biological mechanisms, treatments and other forms of intervention, clinical trials, health services and economic research and mental health policy. Special features are also published, including hypotheses, controversies and snapshots of innovative service models.