Table 1.
Characteristics of psychiatric patients aged 2–17 years in a large electronic health records database, by SUD status: 2000–2010 (N=11,457)
| Selected characteristics, N (%) |
Total | Patients with a SUD diagnosis |
Patients without a SUD diagnosis |
χ2 (df) P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size | N=11,457 | N=1,423 | N=10,034 | |
| Age at first treatment visit | ||||
| 2–12 years | 6210 (54.2) | 104 (7.3) | 6106 (60.9) | 1439.4 (1) <0.001 |
| 13–17 years | 5247 (45.8) | 1319 (92.7) | 3928 (39.2) | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 6643 (58.0) | 982 (69.0) | 5661 (56.4) | 81.1 (1) <0.001 |
| Female | 4814 (42.0) | 441 (31.0) | 4373 (43.6) | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 5649 (49.3) | 716 (50.3) | 4933 (49.2) | 8.0 (3) 0.045 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 4042 (35.3) | 488 (34.3) | 3554 (35.4) | |
| Other | 568 (5.0) | 53 (3.7) | 515 (5.1) | |
| Missing data on race/ethnicity | 1198 (10.5) | 166 (11.7) | 1032 (10.3) | |
| Treatment setting | ||||
| Inpatient | 2768 (24.2) | 617 (43.4) | 2151 (21.4) | 326.9(1) <0.001 |
| Outpatient only | 8689 (75.8) | 806 (56.6) | 7883 (78.6) | |
Df: degree of freedom; SUD: substance use disorder.