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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Oct;62(10):1180–1186. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.62.10.1180

Table 2.

Lifetime prevalence of mental health service utilization among 43,093 people with specific mental disorders, by racial and ethnic subgroupa

Asian
(N= 1,332)
White
(N=24,507)
Black
(N=8,245)
Hispanic
(N=8,308)
Native American
(N=701)
Mental disorder Total
N
N used
services
% Total
N
N used
services
% Total
N
N used
services
% Total
N
N used
services
% Total
N
N used
services
% P
Mood disorder
 Major depression 141 61 38.8 4,596 3,021 65.8 1,026 506 46.9 1,175 678 53.6 183 129 65.0 <.001
 Dysthymia 30 20 66.3 1,235 981 80.2 300 199 59.8 299 215 63.5 54 45 78.9 <.001
 Bipolar
  disorder (I, II)
60 16 18.8 1,361 759 54.6 485 197 39.5 455 191 39.5 68 49 67.2 <.001
 Any mood
  disorder
188 70 34.2 5,286 3,280 61.7 1,326 595 42.6 1,433 754 47.0 210 142 63.7 <001
Anxiety disorder
 Social phobia 49 10 17.9 1,318 458 33.4 275 79 24.0 281 87 29.9 60 24 35.3 .101
 Generalized
  anxiety disorder
30 19 61.8 1,300 792 61.1 292 156 49.0 268 151 57.2 48 30 61.7 .183
 Agoraphobia or
  panic disorder
32 17 49.8 1,428 1,010 69.2 314 185 57.4 337 216 60.3 66 45 67.6 .004
 Specific phobia 88 10 10.5 2,413 671 27.4 775 125 14.3 671 126 17.8 83 23 24.7 <.001
 Any anxiety
  disorder
155 37 24.3 4,545 1,689 36.2 1,217 324 24.7 1,156 344 29.6 168 64 35.4 <.001
Substance use
disorder
 Alcohol disorder 53 7 14.1 1,881 337 16.8 407 68 16.7 489 94 20.9 70 21 27.0 .190
 Drug disorder 151 13 7.6 6,085 420 6.8 1,438 138 10.1 1,118 106 9.5 256 22 7.1 .017
Any DSM-IV psych-
 iatric disorder
384 101 25.0 11,146 4,953 42.8 3,015 1,037 33.6 2,793 1,143 37.7 393 198 47.3 <.001
a

Prevalence is expresse as weighted percentages.