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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Mar 1;66(6):578–584. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201400248

Table 2.

Weighted percentage of 12-month mental health treatment use and perceived unmet need for treatment among adults ages 18–64 by severity of mental illness and insurance status

Severity of mental
illness/Insurance status
Mental health
treatmenta
Perceived unmet need

Received mental
health treatment
(N=5046)
All who perceived
unmet need
(N=2251)
Did not receive
treatmentb
(N=1277)
Received
treatmentc
(N=1267)
No mental illness 7.9 1.3 .8 6.8
  Uninsured 4.5 1.5 1.1 8.0
  Private 8.3 1.1 .7 6.2
  Medicaid 11.0 1.8 .9 8.9
  Other 11.0 1.3 .5 8.2
Any mental illness 38.1 21.3 14.8 32.0
  Uninsured 25.2 25.7 17. 48.7
  Private 38.5 19.2 14.3 26.9
  Medicaid 48.3 22.6 11.4 34.
  Other 51.8 21.9 12.6 30.6
Serious mental illness 59.1 41.2 35.2 45.4
  Uninsured 44.1 46.6 36.8 58.6
  Private 57.2 38.0 34.3 40.8
  Medicaid 73.0 41.6 28.7 46.3
  Other 76.3 43.3 47.1 42.1
Total 14.5 5.7 3.0 21.3
a

Outpatient and/or prescription treatment

b

Percentage of adults who perceived an unmet need among all adults who did not receive mental health treatment

c

Percentage of adults who perceived an unmet need among all adults who received mental health treatment