Effects of Child Protective Custody Status and Health Risk Behaviors on Health Care Use Among Adolescents

To determine whether current protective custody status (ie, youth currently in the temporary or permanent custody of child protective services, eg, foster and kinship care) contributes to increased health care utilization compared to youth never in protective custody. Health characteristics (eg, mental health diagnoses) and behaviors (eg, substance use) were expected to account for differences in health care use among the two...