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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2008 Nov;59(11):1264–1272. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.59.11.1264

Table 2.

Percentages of Respondents in Broad Treatment Categories

Panel A
Panel B
Any Depressive Disorder in the past 12 months (N=1,082)
No Depressive Disorder in the past 12 months (N=7,680)
Row Type of Treatment Non-Latino
White
Latino Asian African
American
Adjusted
Wald test p
value
Design-based
Adjusted F test
for all treatment
groups
Non-Latino
White
Latino Asian African
American
Adjusted
Wald test p
value
Design-based
Adjusted F test for
all treatment
groups
N of Obs 581 192 78 231 2253 1411 1357 2,659
Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
*** Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
Percentage
SE
***
1 No Treatment, No
Antidepressants
40.2
3.1
63.7
4.5
68.7
6.8
58.8
3.2
*** 89.9
0.6
96.2
0.6
96.2
0.7
94.9
0.5
***
2§ Not Adequate Treatment 26.8
2.8
13.9
2.5
18.1
5.0
29.0
3.1
*** 7.0
0.6
3.1
0.5
2.6
0.6
3.8
0.4
***
3 Adequate Treatment 33.0
1.9
22.3
4.9
13.1
4.6
12.1
2.5
*** 3.2
0.3
0.7
0.3
1.2
0.5
1.3
0.3
***

Any Depressive Disorder diagnostic category includes DSM-IV dysthymia and major depressive episode.

Group 1 includes respondents receiving no treatment, and no antidepressants

§

Group 2 includes respondents with no provider visits, but receiving antidepressants, 1-3 provider's visits with antidepressants, 4+ provider visits and antidepressants less than 30 days, 1-7 provider visits and no antidepressants, and those with 8+ provider a visits, but the number of Specialty Mental Health over 30 minutes is less than 8 and no antidepressant use.

Group 3 represents our definition of Adequate Treatment, which include respondents with 4+ provider a visits and antidepressants 30 days or more, or those with 8+ Specialty Mental Health provider visits of at least 30 minutes. If a respondent has 1-3 provider visits and is currently in treatment, he/she is considered as having 4 visits. If respondent has 1-7 visits with a specialty mental health provider visits of at least 30 minutes, and is currently in treatment with specialty mental health provider, he/she is considered as having 8 specialty mental health provider visits. Please note that this definition of adequate treatment only applies to those respondent with a need for mental health treatment.

*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01

***

p < 0.001

Notes:

1. Provider can be from the general medical sector, specialty mental health sector, or a counselor or social worker in a non-mental health setting. General medical sector providers include: general practitioner, family doctor, nurse, occupational therapist, or other health professional for a mental health problem. Specialty mental health sector providers include: psychiatrist, psychologist, counselor or social worker seen in mental health settings, or other mental health professional.

2. The column labeled “adjusted Wald test” shows the p-value from a Wald test that was conducted to test for differences in each of the types of treatments across the racial/ethnic groups.

3. The column labeled “design-based adjusted F-test shows the p-value from an F-test that was conducted to test for racial/ethnic differences in any of the treatment type.