T17_3_3_2b

2011 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 17_3_3.2b
Adults who received prescription medications for mental health treatment in the last 12 months,^a by ethnicity, 2009
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		11.3	0.3	12.2	0.3	13.9	0.3	5.6	0.6	5.3	0.5
Age	18-44	11.0	0.3	12.4	0.3	14.7	0.4	5.7	0.5	4.6	0.4
	45-64	13.3	0.5	14.0	0.6	15.6	0.6	6.2	0.9	7.7	1.3
	65 and over	7.9	0.7	8.2	0.7	9.0	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	7.6	0.3	8.3	0.4	9.2	0.4	4.0	0.6	4.1	0.7
Gender	Female	14.7	0.4	15.8	0.4	18.4	0.5	7.0	0.9	6.7	0.7
Education	Less than high school	9.3	0.6	11.7	0.8	12.5	0.9	9.1	2.1	4.6	0.8
	High school graduate	11.0	0.5	11.9	0.5	13.4	0.6	4.3	0.7	5.1	0.7
	At least some college	12.0	0.3	12.5	0.4	14.5	0.4	5.2	0.6	6.4	0.8
County type^b	Metropolitan	10.9	0.3	11.9	0.3	13.9	0.4	5.4	0.6	5.3	0.5
	Large central metro	9.3	0.4	10.5	0.5	13.6	0.7	5.6	0.7	5.7	0.8
	Large fringe metro	10.9	0.5	11.7	0.6	13.5	0.7	4.8	0.9	3.4	0.8
	Medium metro	12.5	0.6	13.3	0.7	15.0	0.8	4.1	0.9	6.5	0.9
	Small metro	12.5	0.8	13.3	0.9	13.7	0.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Nonmetropolitan	13.1	0.6	13.5	0.6	14.0	0.7	7.5	1.7	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	13.1	0.7	13.7	0.8	14.3	0.9	5.7	1.7	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	13.1	1.0	13.2	1.0	13.3	1.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^a. Received prescription medication for mental health treatment/counseling refers to having received prescription medication for problems with emotions, nerves, or mental health. Respondents who received treatment for drug or alcohol use or with missing treatment or counseling information are excluded.

^b. Specification of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan subgroups changed in 2009; results should not be compared to those of previous years. For information on the urban-rural classification scheme, refer to http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/urban_rural.htm#documentation for details.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T17_3_3_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/17_utilization/T17_3_3_2b.html