TABLE 4.
Adolescent and Parent Responses to the Question, “Do You Have Any Concerns About Being Asked/Your Teen Being Asked Mental Health Questions in the ED?”
| Adolescents*
|
Parents*
|
Mann-Whitney U
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | U | P† | |
| Worried about time | 42% | 29% | 20% | 6% | 3% | 56% | 23% | 15% | 3% | 3% | 37,808 | <0.01 |
| Worried about privacy | 27% | 27% | 29% | 11% | 6% | 37% | 30% | 19% | 6% | 8% | 38,473 | <0.05 |
| Too much pain/distress | 41% | 25% | 17% | 11% | 6% | 38% | 36% | 15% | 7% | 4% | 41,946 | 0.242 |
| Unnecessary—do not have these problems | 40% | 27% | 19% | 8% | 6% | 59% | 19% | 13% | 5% | 4% | 33,438 | <0.001 |
| Unnecessary—already getting help | 54% | 25% | 13% | 6% | 2% | 68.5 | 16.5 | 11% | 1% | 2.5 | 33,503 | <0.01 |
| Worried what other people would think | 48% | 19% | 20% | 8% | 5% | 81% | 12% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 27,088 | <0.001 |
*
1 = Do not agree, 2 = somewhat agree, 3 = agree, 4 = strongly agree, 5 = very strongly agree.
†
All significant differences were in the direction of adolescents having higher concern ratings than parents.