Table 7_1_3-1

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_3.1
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, 2007
		No help		Some/little help		Lot/great deal
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		16.4	1.2	44.7	1.7	38.8	1.7
Age	12–17	17.6	1.8	50.3	2.5	32.1	2.3
	18–25	19.6	1.8	45.4	2.0	35.0	2.1
	26 and over	15.9	1.5	44.2	2.0	39.9	2.0
Race	White only	16.6	1.4	43.6	1.9	39.8	1.8
	Black only	13.2	2.6	51.8	5.5	35.1	5.4
	Asian only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	AI/AN only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	16.9	3.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Non-Hispanic, all races	16.4	1.3	44.6	1.7	39.0	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, White	16.8	1.5	43.3	1.9	40.0	1.9
	Non-Hispanic, Black	11.9	2.9	53.1	5.7	35.1	5.6
Gender	Male	17.5	2.6	52.9	3.3	29.6	2.8
Gender	Female	16.0	1.4	41.2	2.0	42.8	2.0
Education, age 18 and over	Less than high school	14.7	3.3	47.8	4.9	37.5	4.2
	High school graduate	17.3	2.5	43.2	3.4	39.5	3.4
	At least some college	16.4	1.8	43.7	2.5	39.9	2.5

^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.

DSU - 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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 7_1_3-1: 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_3-1.html