Table 3.
Children with MH need (n = 65), by reporter and type: MH service utilization by service sector
| Reporter | MH need type |
Service received |
Unmet MH need | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) All children | N (%) Outpatient | N (%) School | N (%) Outpatient and school | N (%) Any service | N (%) No service | ||
| Any | Any MH needa | 65 (100 %) | 6 (9.2 %) | 6 (9.2 %) | 3 (4.6 %) | 15 (23.1 %) | 50 (76.9 %) |
| Mother | Any MH needa | 46 (100 %) | 4 (8.7 %) | 5 (10.9 %) | 3 (6.5 %) | 12 (26.1 %) | 34 (73.9 %) |
| Externalizing problems | 32 (100 %) | 4 (12.5 %) | 3 (9.4 %) | 3 (9.4 %) | 10 (31.3 %) | 22 (68.7 %) | |
| Internalizing problems | 30 (100 %) | 2 (6.7 %) | 4 (13.3 %) | 2 (6.7 %) | 8 (26.7 %) | 22 (73.3 %) | |
| Total problems | 28 (100 %) | 2 (7.1 %) | 4 (14.3 %) | 3 (10.7 %) | 9 (32.1 %) | 19 (67.9 %) | |
| Teacher | Any MH needa | 26 (100 %) | 2 (7.7 %) | 2 (7.7 %) | 0 (0.0 %) | 4 (15.4 %) | 22 (84.6 %) |
| Externalizing problems | 20 (100 %) | 2 (10.0 %) | 2 (10.0 %) | 0 (0.0 %) | 4 (20.0 %) | 16 (80.0 %) | |
| Internalizing problems | 9 (100 %) | 0 (.0 %) | 1 (11.1 %) | 0 (0.0 %) | 1 (11.1 %) | 8 (88.9 %) | |
| Total problems | 13 (100 %) | 0 (.0 %) | 2 (15.4 %) | 0 (0.0 %) | 2 (15.4 %) | 11 (84.6 %) | |
| Both | Any MH needa | 7 (100 %) | 0 (.0 %) | 1 (14.3 %) | 0 (.0 %) | 1 (14.3 %) | 6 (85.7 %) |
Number of children receiving outpatient, school, or both outpatient and school mental health services in the past year, by mental health (MH) need and reporter. No inpatient or residential services were reported
a
As different types of MH need often overlap in the same children (e.g., externalizing and internalizing problems), these are not mutually exclusive. As a result, the number of children under “Any MH need” is lower than the sum of children under each MH need type category. On 7 children, MH need was reported by both mother and teacher; 6 of these (85.7 %) did not receive services (see text)