Table 2.

The Comparison of Key Factors between American Indian and White Older Adults

Factors	Race
	Total sample (N = 735) Mean (SD)	Whites (n = 502) Mean (SD)	American Indians (n = 233) Mean (SD)	p value
Need Factors
GDS	64.4	2.00 (2.36)	2.29 (2.76)	ns
Perceived physical health	2.95 (.69)	3.00 (.67)	2.83 (.72)	.002
Enable/Hindering Factors
Prior negative experience of mental health service use	.11 (.43)	.05 (.28)	.25 (.67)	<0.001
Knowledge of depression	4.95 (2.32)	5.07 (2.22)	4.62 (2.45)	.022
Stigma	10.52 (3.05)	10.51 (3.01)	10.52 (3.17)	ns
Attitudes toward mental health services	18.77 (5.94)	18.63 (7.64)	18.83 (6.10)	ns
Outcome variables
Level of mental health service use (Total)	.25 (.67)	.21 (.59)	.34 (.83)	.021
Level of mental health services use excluding non-physical health care use	20 (.57)	.17 (.49)	.28 (.73)	.017
Non-physician health care use (yes, n (%))	38 (5%)	23 (4.6%)	14 (6%)	ns

Notes: Income is presented in Table 1; GDS indicates the Geriatric Depression Scale