Brooke Worster, Lauren Waldman, Gregory Garber, Tingting Zhan, AnaMaria Lopez, Olivia Trachtenberg, Nathan Handley, Kristin L Rising, Valerie Csik, Amy Leader
Increasing equitable access to telehealth oncology care in the COVID-19 National Emergency: Creation of a telehealth task force
Cancer medicine
authors sought explore availability mental health supports within public schools covid19 pandemic using survey data nationally representative sample us k12 public schools collected octobernovember 2021 prevalence 11 schoolbased mental health supports examined within sample n437 schools chisquare tests adjusted logistic regression models used identify associations schoollevel characteristics mental health supports school characteristics included level elementary middle high school locale city town suburb rural area poverty level fulltime school nurse schoolbased health center universal mental health programs prevalent individualized groupbased supports eg therapy groups however prevalence certain mental health supports low among schools eg 53 implemented schoolwide traumainformed practices schools middle high levels poverty located rural areas towns elementary schools schools without health infrastructure less likely implement mental health supports even analyses adjusted schoollevel characteristics example compared lowpoverty schools midpoverty schools lower odds implementing prosocial skills training students adjusted aor049 95 ci027088 providing confidential mental health screening aor042 95 ci022079 implementation levels schoolbased mental health supports leave substantial room improvement numerous disparities existed school characteristics higherpoverty areas schools rural areas towns elementary schools schools without health infrastructure may require assistance ensuring equitable access mental health supports