Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of office-based mental health care visits for adults and older adults in the U.S. from 2007-2010

	Mental Disorder Diagnosis (n=9,286)			Psychotropic (n=20,043)			Psychiatrist (n=4,491)			Psychotherapy (n=2,763)
	21-64y	≥65y	X2	21-64y	≥65y	X2	21-64y	≥65y	X2	21-64y	≥65y	X2
Age, mean (SE), y	44.13	76.40	n/a	46.77	75.88	n/a	44.32	72.34	n/a	44.44	73.31
	(.25)	(.33)		(.19)	(.15)		(.31)	(.48)		(.47)	(.60)
Sex
Male, %d	38.76	32.31	12.86c	33.53	34.41	0.98	39.89	32.18	4.67a	40.04	34.38	1.96
Female	61.24	67.69		66.47	65.59		60.11	67.82		59.96	65.62
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	81.08	81.88	0.29	80.40	83.02	0.29	81.05	84.57	0.71	83.17	89.37	4.18a
Non-Hispanic black	8.01	7.15	0.49	8.86	6.66	10.65b	8.78	3.26	12.38c	7.02	3.55	3.62
Hispanic	7.57	7.85	0.07	7.60	7.69	0.03	6.78	9.15	0.72	5.75	4.38	0.48
Other	3.34	3.13	0.13	3.15	2.62	1.50	3.39	3.02	0.10	4.06	2.70	0.98
Provider Specialty
Primary care	49.33	63.59	16.32c	49.82	52.85	2.47	n/a	n/a	n/a	9.63	20.26	4.42a
Other specialty	11.56	18.41	13.60c	34.10	43.27	24.12c	n/a	n/a	n/a	2.75	3.56	0.18
Psychiatrist	40.10	19.42	81.33c	17.11	4.35	175.13c	n/a	n/a	n/a	87.92	80.16	5.43a
MH diagnosis
Any MH diagnosis	n/a	n/a	n/a	36.82	19.27	191.16c	95.37	93.19	1.10	94.16	89.14	5.08a
Depression	42.73	38.35	5.92a	17.52	8.12	159.59c	44.08	52.58	7.33b	44.79	54.23	4.03a
Bipolar disorder	11.44	3.87	59.46c	4.97	0.83	137.91c	19.16	12.75	6.36a	16.82	12.54	2.07
Psychotic disorder	5.22	3.27	7.37b	2.15	0.67	41.78c	9.62	9.26	0.05	6.57	7.04	0.07
Substance use disorder	11.37	5.79	31.15c	2.76	0.51	54.34c	7.01	1.70	10.24b	8.23	2.31	6.79b
Anxiety disorder	29.00	21.70	12.91c	11.75	4.34	98.67c	27.08	20.91	4.19a	28.06	18.18	10.49b
Dementia	0.16	9.76	598.01c	<0.01	2.01	293.13c	<0.01	5.36	415.52c	<0.01	1.05	42.62c
Psychotropic medication
Any	74.34	73.09	0.36	n/a	n/a	n/a	82.17	83.58	79.55	80.96	16.01	0.06
Antidepressant	53.62	42.22	33.21c	64.03	51.94	122.56c	61.92	62.02	61.93	61.74	0.00	0.01
Anxiolytic	36.37	31.06	6.08a	50.26	50.80	0.22	0.39	0.40	38.30	41.78	0.60	0.60
Mood stabilizer	9.14	3.41	33.54c	8.00	0.03	117.25c	16.56	8.73	14.16	8.71	5.77a	5.93a
Antipsychotic	16.07	11.06	13.75c	12.13	6.37	59.19c	29.48	28.93	24.02	24.56	0.03	0.02
Stimulant	3.75	0.81	31.11c	2.63	0.37	101.71c	5.86	2.86	5.15	2.98	2.50	2.57
Psychotherapy visit	22.70	12.08	43.89c	9.50	2.89	135.93c	50.41	55.01	1.24	n/a	n/a	n/a
Payment form
Medicare	10.86	77.45	1084.40c	11.86	80.63	2540.21c	14.13	64.12	247.30c	10.12	65.03	287.02c
Medicaid	15.99	6.55	40.6500c	13.41	6.01	66.53c	17.61	10.98	3.72	13.33	6.15	6.64a
Private	58.80	46.53	21.61c	66.63	49.13	109.06c	48.07	33.95	12.28c	49.40	37.28	5.22a
Other	19.48	5.84	142.91c	13.89	3.76	141.35c	27.43	17.54	9.51b	31.62	18.83	10.88b
Geographic region
Northeast	21.55	20.02	0.93	18.79	17.07	2.80	29.28	38.78	4.21a	33.82	39.92	1.78
Midwest	22.42	22.16	0.02	23.06	21.92	0.95	15.81	13.04	1.00	17.94	17.86	0.00
South	34.83	37.75	1.47	37.97	41.05	3.23	33.55	28.85	0.95	21.82	17.61	1.16
West	21.19	20.06	0.43	20.18	19.96	0.02	21.36	19.33	0.32	26.41	24.61	0.13
Metropolitan area
Yes	86.82	85.85	0.40	87.47	86.63	0.36	89.24	85.42	1.85	90.83	85.71	3.01
No	12.32	13.14		12.53	13.37		10.76	14.58		9.17	14.29

^ap< .05,

^bp< .01,

^cp< .001

^dall values are percentages except age