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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adm Policy Ment Health. 2020 Jul;47(4):606–616. doi: 10.1007/s10488-020-01021-6

Table 2.

Associations of demographic predictors with barriers to treatmenta (n = 1,417)

No/Low Perceived Need
OR (CI)
Any Structural Barriers
OR (CI)
Any Attitudinal Barriers
OR (CI)
Age (60+, reference)
 18-29 0.7 (0.4-1.2) 6.4* (1.5-28.2) 0.2 (0.0-1.8)
 30-44 0.6 (0.3-1.0) 5.2* (1.4-19.7) 0.2* (0.1-0.9)
 45-59 0.6 (0.3-1.1) 5.8* (1.5-22.2) 0.3 (0.1-1.2)
 F, p-value 1.37 (p=.26) 2.33 (p=.08) 1.66 (p=.18)
Gender (male, reference)
 Female 0.7* (0.5-0.9) 1.5 (0.9-2.6) 1.0 (0.4-2.9)
Race/ethnicity (White, reference)
 Asian 4.5* (2.0-10.3) 0.4 (0.1-1.5) 0.3 (0.1-1.3)
 Latino 4.3* (2.9-6.6) 0.8 (0.2-2.5) 0.1* (0.0-0.3)
 Black 1.5 (0.9-2.6) 0.5 (0.2-1.7) 4.8 (0.7-33.3)
 F, p-value 20.91 (p<.001) 0.81 (p=.49) 9.44 (p=.00)
Education (16+ years, reference)
 0-11 0.6* (0.3-1.0) 1.1 (0.5-2.3) 0.6 (0.2-1.8)
 12 0.9 (0.5-1.6) 1.0 (0.5-2.1) 0.3* (0.1-1.0)
 13-15 1.3 (0.8-2.0) 1.0 (0.4-2.3) 0.3* (0.1-0.9)
 F, p-value 5.20 (p<.001) 0.05 (p=.98) 1.68 (p=.17)
Income (Continuous)
 Personalized earnings 0.8* (0.6-1.0) 1.0 (0.7-1.6) 2.5* (1.2-4.9)
Disorder Severity (Mild, reference)
 Severe 0.7 (0.4-1.1) 4.1* (2.2-7.8) 3.2 (0.7-13.5)
 Moderate 0.9 (0.6-1.2) 1.5 (0.9-2.7) 2.7* (1.1-6.8)
 F, p-value 1.33 (p=.27) 12.46 (p<.001) 2.48 (p=.09)
Marital Status (Never married, reference)
 Married/Cohabitating 1.0 (0.7-1.6) 1.4 (0.7-2.6) 0.8 (0.2-3.4)
 Separated/Widowed/ Divorced 0.8 (0.5-1.4) 1.5 (0.6-3.8) 0.6 (0.1-5.7)
 F, p-value 1.00 (p=.37) 0.55 (p=.58) 0.09 (p=.91)
# of disorders (Continuous)
 # mood 0.5* (0.4-0.7) 1.6 (1.0-2.8) 0.4* (0.2-0.9)
 # anxiety 0.7* (0.5-0.8) 1.5* (1.1-2.0) 0.9 (0.5-1.6)
 # substance use 0.5* (0.3-0.9) 1.4 (0.8-2.3) 1.5 (0.4-6.2)
 # externalizing 2.0 (0.7-5.9) 3.6 (0.9-14.5) -b
Poverty (% in county, continuous)
 % Below poverty level 0.9 (0.2-3.9) 6.8 (0.6-78.0) 0.0 (0.0-5.1)
Race/Ethnicity (% in county, continuous)
 % Latino 0.4* (0.2-1.0) 0.7 (0.1-4.4) 2.7 (0.3-22.5)
 % Asian 0.5 (0.1-4.8) 0.1 (0.0-2.6) 0.0 (0.0-1.1)
 % Black 1.0 (0.4-2.7) 0.8 (0.1-5.7) 3.1 (0.0-249.2)
Urbanicity (Metro, reference)
 Urban 1.3 (1.0-1.8) 0.9 (0.4-2.4) 0.9 (0.1-6.0)
 Rural 1.3 (0.7-2.6) 0.3* (0.1-1.0) -b
 F, p-value 1.42 (p=.25) 2.11 (p=.13) 0.01 (p=.91)
*

Significant at the .05 level, two-sided test

a

Based on multivariate logistic regression models

b

Number of externalizing disorders and rural urbanicity were dropped from analysis because they predict the outcome perfectly.