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The use of outpatient mental health services in the United States and Ontario: the impact of mental morbidity and perceived need for care.
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OBJECTIVES: This study compared the associations of individual mental health disorders, self-rated mental health, disability, and perceived need for care with the use of outpatient mental health services in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. METHODS: A cross-sectional study design was employed. Data came from the 1990 US National Comorbidity Survey and the 1990 Mental Health Supplement to the Ontario Health Survey. RESULTS: The odds of receiving any medical or psychiatric specialty services were as follows: for persons with any affective disorder, 3.1 in the United States vs 11.0 in Ontario; for persons with fair or poor self-rated mental health, 2.7 in the United States vs 5.0 in Ontario; for persons with mental health-related disability. 3.0 in the United States vs 1.5 in Ontario. When perceived need was controlled for, most of the between country differences in use disappeared. CONCLUSIONS: The higher use of mental health services in the United States than in Ontario is mostly explained by the combination of a higher prevalence of mental morbidity and a higher prevalence of perceived need for care among persons with low mental morbidity in the United States.
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- Katz, S. J., Kessler, R. C., Frank, R. G., Leaf, P., Lin, E., & Edlund, M.
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
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- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1997-07
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1136-1143
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
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- W1986255157
- Cited by
- 228
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 7.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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