NHQRDR 2010 /T7_1_3-1

2010 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^a� who saw or talked to a medical doctor or other professional about depression in the last 12 months,United States, 2008
		No help		Some/little help		A lot/great deal of help
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		14.6	1.2	44.7	1.7	40.7	1.7
Age	12-17	20.4	2.1	44.6	2.6	35.0	2.4
	18-25	19.0	1.8	44.8	2.3	36.2	2.2
	26 and over	13.5	1.4	44.7	2.0	41.8	2.1
Race	White only	15.1	1.3	43.2	1.8	41.7	1.8
	Black only	12.4	3.3	52.9	5.2	34.6	5.1
	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	Non-Hispanic, all races	14.6	1.3	45.3	1.8	40.1	1.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	15.2	1.4	43.7	1.9	41.1	1.9
	Non-Hispanic, Black	12.4	3.4	53.6	5.3	34.0	5.2
	Hispanic, all races	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	13.4	2.1	51.9	3.1	34.7	2.8
Gender	Female	15.1	1.5	41.6	2.1	43.3	2.1
Education, age 18 and over	Less than high school	14.7	3.2	47.0	4.7	38.3	4.4
	High school graduate	15.2	2.8	41.8	3.6	42.9	3.8
	At least some college	13.5	1.6	45.7	2.4	40.8	2.4

^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. Due to MDE questionnaire changes, the 2008 estimates are no longer comparable to estimates in previous years.

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

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