Table 15_3_2-1b

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 15_3_2.1b
Adults who received outpatient mental health treatment or counseling in the last 12 months,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2006
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		6.7	0.2	7.0	0.2	7.6	0.3	4.5	0.5	4.2	0.5
Age	18–44	7.0	0.2	7.7	0.3	8.6	0.3	4.6	0.5	4.1	0.5
	45–64	7.6	0.4	7.8	0.4	8.2	0.5	4.8	1.1	4.9	1.2
	65 and over	3.7	0.5	3.8	0.5	4.0	0.6	3.0	1.6	2.7	1.4
Gender	Male	4.8	0.3	5.0	0.3	5.2	0.3	3.6	0.7	3.5	0.6
Gender	Female	8.4	0.3	8.9	0.3	9.9	0.4	5.1	0.7	4.8	0.6
Education	Less than high school	5.0	0.4	5.7	0.5	6.5	0.7	3.5	0.7	3.3	0.7
	High school graduate	5.4	0.3	5.7	0.3	6.1	0.4	4.0	0.8	3.2	0.6
	At least some college	8.0	0.3	8.1	0.3	8.7	0.3	5.2	0.8	6.1	1.0
County type	MSA	6.8	0.2	7.3	0.2	7.9	0.3	4.7	0.5	3.9	0.5
County type	Non-MSA	6.2	0.4	6.1	0.4	6.4	0.5	2.3	0.7	7.2	2.2

^a Outpatient mental health treatment or counseling is defined as having received outpatient care for problems with emotions, nerves, or mental health. Respondents were not to include treatment for drug or alcohol use. Respondents with missing treatment or counseling information are excluded.

Key: MSA: metropolitan statistical area; SE: standard error.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 15_3_2-1b: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/15_healthcareutilization/T15_3_2-1b.html