Behavioral Health

The percentage of children 6 months of age who had documentation of a maternal depression screening for the mother.

The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a brief parent-report questionnaire that is used to assess overall psychosocial functioning in children from 3 to 18 years of age. Originally developed to be a screen that would allow pediatricians and other health professionals to identify children with poor overall functioning who were in need of further evaluation or referral, the PSC has seen such wide use in large systems that it has increasingly been used as a quality indicator and as an outcome measure to assess changes in functioning over time.

This measure is based on data from MDS 3.0 assessments of nursing home residents. Either a resident interview measure or a staff assessment measure will be reported. The preferred version is the resident interview measure. The resident interview measure will be used unless either there are three or more missing sub-items needed for calculation or the resident is rarely or never understood, in which cases the staff assessment measure will be calculated and used. These measures use those questions in MDS 3.0 that comprise the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression instrument.

The percentage of children with documentation of a risk assessment or counseling for risky behaviors by 13 years of age. Four rates are reported: Risk Assessment or Counseling for Alcohol Use, Risk Assessment or Counseling for Tobacco Use, Risk Assessment or Counseling for Other Substance Use, Risk Assessment or Counseling for Sexual Activity.

The percentage of adolescents with documentation of assessment or counseling for risky behavior by the age of 18 years. Four rates are reported: Risk Assessment or Counseling for Alcohol Use, Risk Assessment or Counseling for Tobacco Use, Risk Assessment or Counseling for Other Substance Use, and Risk Assessment or Counseling for Sexual Activity.