Table 2.
Multinomial logistic regression of sociodemographics, disorder-related variables, and family network variables on patterns of help-seeking with using both professional services and informal support as reference categorya
| Variable | Professional only | Informal only | None | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coeff | se | P | Coeff | se | P | Coeff | se | P | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||||
| African American | −0.02 | 0.40 | 0.962 | 0.73 | 0.41 | 0.082 | −0.14 | 0.35 | 0.698 |
| Caribbean Black (reference) | |||||||||
| Age (cont) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.316 | −0.04 | 0.01 | <.001 | −0.004 | 0.01 | 0.709 |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.176 | 0.61 | 0.19 | 0.002 | 0.91 | 0.22 | <.001 |
| Female (reference) | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| HS or less (reference) | |||||||||
| Some college | −0.18 | 0.28 | 0.519 | −0.19 | 0.21 | 0.381 | −0.52 | 0.2 | 0.012 |
| College degree or higher | −0.55 | 0.36 | 0.136 | −0.61 | 0.27 | 0.026 | −0.64 | 0.25 | 0.012 |
| Employment status | |||||||||
| Working | 0.17 | 0.21 | 0.413 | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.047 | 0.74 | 0.29 | 0.013 |
| Not working (reference) | |||||||||
| Marital status | |||||||||
| Married (reference) | |||||||||
| Previously married | 0.60 | 0.21 | 0.006 | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.758 | −0.12 | 0.24 | 0.630 |
| Never married | 0.48 | 0.25 | 0.057 | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.669 | 0.41 | 0.26 | 0.114 |
| Poverty Index (cont)b | −0.03 | 0.05 | 0.584 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.329 | −0.15 | 0.06 | 0.014 |
| Has health insurance | |||||||||
| Yes | 0.13 | 0.28 | 0.651 | −0.06 | 0.16 | 0.735 | −0.19 | 0.21 | 0.376 |
| No (reference) | |||||||||
| Disorder | |||||||||
| Mental disorder only (reference) | |||||||||
| Substance disorder only | 0.67 | 0.38 | 0.091 | −0.13 | 0.36 | 0.724 | 0.84 | 0.32 | 0.010 |
| Both mental and substance | −0.58 | 0.27 | 0.028 | −0.76 | 0.22 | 0.001 | −1.26 | 0.28 | <.001 |
| Severity | |||||||||
| Lifetime, not 12-month | 1.18 | 0.33 | 0.001 | 2.04 | 0.29 | <.001 | 1.64 | 0.36 | <.001 |
| Mild, 12-month | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.472 | 1.53 | 0.38 | <.001 | 1.28 | 0.39 | 0.002 |
| Moderate, 12-month | 0.78 | 0.36 | 0.032 | 1.24 | 0.33 | <.001 | 0.72 | 0.37 | 0.057 |
| Severe, 12-month (reference) | |||||||||
| Network variables | |||||||||
| Size of helper network | −0.03 | 0.01 | 0.020 | −0.02 | 0.01 | 0.000 | −0.02 | 0.01 | 0.041 |
| Frequency of contact with familyc | −0.04 | 0.06 | 0.509 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.900 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.935 |
| Subjective family closenessd | −0.44 | 0.14 | 0.003 | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.187 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.570 |
a
Using both professional services and informal support help is comparison group
b
Poverty index ranges from 0 to 33 with higher scores indicating household income is further away from the poverty threshold
c
Possible scores range from 0 to 6 with higher scores indicating more frequent contact with family
d
Possible scores range from 0 to 3 with higher scores indicating more closeness to family