Table 7_1_1-2b

2009 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_1.2b
Adults with a major depressive episode in the last 12 months who received treatment for depression in the last 12 months,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		64.5	1.3	65.9	1.3	68.5	1.4	53.0	4.3	53.9	4.4
Age	18–44	57.6	1.4	59.5	1.4	61.6	1.6	45.7	4.2	44.4	4.3
	45–64	75.4	2.3	76.1	2.4	79.5	2.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	65 and over	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	57.8	2.4	59.2	2.5	60.2	2.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Female	68.0	1.4	69.4	1.5	72.7	1.5	51.3	4.8	57.3	5.6
Education	Less than high school	65.2	2.8	70.7	2.9	72.1	3.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	High school graduate	65.3	2.2	66.3	2.2	69.5	2.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	At least some college	63.9	1.9	64.2	2.0	66.8	2.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
County type	MSA	63.2	1.5	64.6	1.6	67.4	1.7	52.3	4.6	53.4	4.6
County type	Non-MSA	70.7	2.3	71.0	2.3	72.6	2.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^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 of depression as described in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Treatment is defined as seeing or talking to a medical doctor or other professional or using prescription medication for depression in the past year. Respondents with unknown data for past year MDE measures or unknown treatment data were excluded.

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

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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 7_1_1-2b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/7_mentalhealthsubstanceabuse/T7_1_1-2b.html