Perception of Interprofessional Collaboration and Co-Location of Specialists and Primary Care Teams in Youth Mental Health.

Objective: Interprofessional collaboration is a cornerstone of youth mental health collaborative care models. This article presents quantitative results from a mixed-methods study. It analyses the organizational predictors of the perception of interprofessional collaboration of professionals comparing two models of services within recently constituted youth mental health collaborative care teams.

Methods: Professionals (n=104) belonging to six health and social services institutions completed an online survey measuring their perceptions of interprofessional collaboration through a validated questionnaire, the PINCOM-Q.

Results: Results suggest that the integrated model of collaborative care in which specialized resources are co-located with the primary care teams is the main significant predictor of positive perception of interprofessional collaborations in the youth mental health team.

Conclusions: More research on the relation between service delivery models and interprofessional relations could help support the successful implementation of collaborative care in youth mental health.