Table 7_1_7-1

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 7_1_7.1
Perception of help received from treatment or counseling among people age 12 and over with a major depressive episode (MDE) in the last 12 months,^a United States, 2006
Population group		No help		Some/little help		Lot/great deal
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		14.2	1.10	44.8	1.63	40.9	1.66
Age	12–17	16.0	1.89	47.6	2.83	36.4	2.66
	18–25	19.1	1.70	47.9	2.14	32.9	1.92
	26 and over	13.4	1.31	44.2	2.00	42.4	2.02
Race	White only	14.4	1.21	43.5	1.78	42.1	1.84
	Black only	14.9	4.06	51.6	5.47	33.5	5.04
	Asian only	*	*	*	*	*	*
	NHOPI only	*	*	*	*	*	*
	AI/AN only	*	*	*	*	*	*
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	*	*	34.5	4.91	42.8	5.80
	Non-Hispanic, all races	13.5	1.09	45.7	1.71	40.8	1.71
	Non-Hispanic, White	13.6	1.18	44.3	1.87	42.1	1.90
	Non-Hispanic, Black	15.1	4.16	51.2	5.58	33.7	5.15
Gender	Male	15.1	2.06	50.5	3.16	34.4	2.98
Gender	Female	13.8	1.25	42.3	1.80	43.9	1.90
Education, age 18 and over	Less than high school	19.4	3.66	45.3	4.44	35.3	4.45
	High school graduate	15.4	2.17	42.7	3.29	41.9	3.27
	At least some college	11.8	1.36	45.4	2.35	42.7	2.28

^a Major depressive episode (MDE) is defined as a period of at least 2 weeks when a person experienced a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities and had a majority of the symptoms for depression as described in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV. Estimates of levels of perceived help exclude persons with unknown perception of help information.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; 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 7_1_7-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/7_mentalhealthsubstanceabuse/T7_1_7-1.html