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Section VI: National Mental Health Statistics
Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of youth admitteda to organized
mental health care in the United States by program service setting in 1997
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Program Service Setting |
| |
Inpatient
(N = 286,176) |
Outpatient
(N = 962,813) |
Residential
care (N = 65,949) |
Total
(N = 1,314,938) |
| |
% |
Standard Error |
% |
Standard Error |
% |
Standard Error |
% |
Standard Error |
| Age Group |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 0-5 years |
3.0 |
1.4 |
11.4 |
0.9 |
1.8 |
0.9 |
9.1 |
0.7 |
| 6-12 years |
29.5 |
3.0 |
44.7 |
1.4 |
22.7 |
2.7 |
40.3 |
1.3 |
| 13-17 years |
67.6 |
3.2 |
43.9 |
1.5 |
75.5 |
2.8 |
50.7 |
1.4 |
| Gender |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Male |
50.8 |
3.3 |
56.6 |
1.3 |
60.9 |
5.3 |
55.6 |
1.2 |
| Female |
49.2 |
3.3 |
43.4 |
1.3 |
39.1 |
5.3 |
44.5 |
1.2 |
| Race-ethnicitya |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Whites |
67.4 |
3.4 |
64.0 |
1.8 |
64.9 |
4.8 |
64.8 |
1.5 |
| Blacks |
16.1 |
2.2 |
19.6 |
1.4 |
20.9 |
3.6 |
18.9 |
1.2 |
| Hispanics |
14.0 |
2.9 |
14.3 |
1.2 |
11.8 |
3.2 |
14.1 |
1.1 |
| All others |
2.6 |
1.0 |
2.1 |
0.4 |
2.3 |
0.8 |
2.2 |
0.3 |
| Region of Country |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Northeast |
22.0 |
4.2 |
23.1 |
2.3 |
21.4 |
6.3 |
22.8 |
1.9 |
| South |
40.2 |
5.8 |
29.5 |
2.6 |
21.1 |
6.3 |
31.4 |
2.3 |
| Midwest |
22.6 |
5.2 |
29.6 |
2.7 |
39.5 |
9.5 |
28.6 |
2.4 |
| West |
15.2 |
4.1 |
17.8 |
2.2 |
18.0 |
5.5 |
17.3 |
1.9 |
| Living Situation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Parent(s)b |
72.5 |
2.8 |
71.1 |
1.8 |
53.0 |
5.2 |
70.5 |
1.5 |
| Kinship carec |
9.1 |
1.8 |
11.8 |
1.2 |
4.1 |
1.2 |
10.8 |
0.9 |
| Foster care |
4.0 |
1.0 |
6.3 |
0.8 |
8.3 |
1.6 |
5.9 |
0.6 |
| Group home |
9.2 |
1.5 |
3.2 |
0.5 |
17.2 |
2.5 |
5.2 |
0.5 |
| Jail/juvenile detention |
0.8 |
0.3 |
0.6 |
0.2 |
12.7 |
2.9 |
1.2 |
0.2 |
| Otherd |
* |
* |
6.0 |
1.3 |
* |
* |
5.1 |
1.0 |
| Unknown |
1.6 |
0.8 |
1.0 |
0.2 |
2.5 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
0.2 |
| Primary Payment Source |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Medicaid |
37.6 |
3.1 |
44.8 |
1.9 |
29.4 |
6.1 |
42.4 |
1.6 |
| Other public assistance |
5.3 |
1.2 |
8.6 |
1.0 |
52.8 |
7.3 |
10.1 |
0.9 |
| Charity care |
2.4 |
1.0 |
6.2 |
1.0 |
* |
* |
5.1 |
0.8 |
| Private insurance |
48.3 |
4.0 |
26.4 |
1.9 |
13.8 |
5.1 |
30.5 |
1.7 |
| Personal resources |
2.4 |
1.1 |
11.3 |
1.0 |
2.2 |
1.0 |
8.9 |
0.7 |
| Unknown/missing |
3.9 |
1.3 |
2.8 |
0.8 |
* |
* |
2.9 |
0.7 |
Note: Youth population includes all children and
adolescents under age 18. This table represents 4,014 observations (1,314,938
weighted observations) from the 1997 Client Patient Sample Survey. U.S.
territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands were excluded
(21 observations).
a Whites, Blacks, and all others exclude Hispanics.
b Parent(s) includes at least one biological, step, or adoptive parent.
c Kinship care includes aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters, cousins,
and grandparents.
d Other living situation includes alone, sibling (biological or adoptive),
homeless, family acquaintance, other nonrelative, and spouse.
* Estimate is based on five or fewer sample cases or has a relative standard
error of 50 percent or higher; therefore, it is not shown because it does
not meet standards of reliability. |
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