Table 1.
Physician and Practice Characteristics For the Analytic Sample and Bivariate Associations with On-site MHPs
| Analytic Sample (n=321) | On-site MHPs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (n=209) | Yes (n=112) | p-val | ||
| Physician Characteristics | ||||
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 67.6 | 68.7 | 65.5 | .57 |
| Male | 32.4 | 31.3 | 34.5 | |
| Age, y; weighted mean (SE) | 46.3 (0.6) | 47.0 (0.8) | 45.1 (1.1) | .17 |
| Years in practice | ||||
| <5 | 20.4 | 16.4 | 27.6 | .12 |
| 5–9 | 15.9 | 16.0 | 15.7 | |
| 10–19 | 30.7 | 32.0 | 28.5 | |
| ≥20 | 33.0 | 35.6 | 28.2 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||
| Caucasian | 74.8 | 76.0 | 72.7 | .45 |
| Asian | 11.8 | 12.4 | 10.7 | |
| Other | 13.4 | 11.6 | 16.6 | |
| Residency/fellowship training in child MH | ||||
| < 4 weeks residency rotation in DBP | 46.6 | 50.6 | 39.3 | .05 |
| ≥ 4 weeks residency rotation in DBP and/or fellowship in child MH | 53.4 | 49.4 | 60.7 | |
| Practice Characteristics | ||||
| Location of practice | ||||
| Urban | 39.3 | 29.4 | 57.3 | <.001 |
| Suburban | 49.7 | 59.0 | 32.7 | |
| Rural | 11.0 | 11.6 | 10.0 | |
| Type of practice | ||||
| 1 or 2 physician | 9.3 | 12.7 | 3.2 | <.001 |
| Pediatric group practice | 51.5 | 64.8 | 27.3 | |
| Multispecialty group | 12.3 | 13.6 | 10.0 | |
| Medical School/University | 7.7 | 2.1 | 17.9 | |
| Other* | 19.2 | 6.8 | 41.6 | |
| Ambulatory visits per week | ||||
| < 100 | 64.8 | 55.9 | 80.9 | <.001 |
| ≥ 100 | 35.2 | 44.1 | 19.1 | |
| ≥75% patients are Caucasian | ||||
| No | 77.7 | 73.0 | 86.0 | .009 |
| Yes | 22.3 | 27.0 | 14.0 | |
| Patient insurance | ||||
| <80% have private insurance | 61.3 | 54.5 | 73.6 | <.001 |
| ≥80% have private insurance | 25.1 | 33.0 | 10.7 | |
| Unknown | 13.6 | 12.5 | 15.7 | |
Weighted column % shown for categorical variables; weighted mean (SE) shown for continuous measures
*
Other type of practices includes HMO (staff model), non-government hospital or clinic, government hospital or clinic, non-profit community health center