Table 3.
Barriers to seeking treatment and reasons for dropping out of treatment in the past 12 months among respondents with 12-month DSM-IV/CIDI disorders (any severity).
| No Service Use | Drop Out | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | (SE) | % | (SE) | ||
| I. Reasons for not seeking treatment (n = 597) | I. Reasons of dropping out (n = 26) | ||||
| Low perceived need | 50.7 | (2.8) | Did not need help anymore | 56.1 | (12.2) |
| Structural barriers | 5.1 | (1.3) | Structural barriers | 20.0 | (11.3) |
| Attitudinal barriers | 48.8 | (2.8) | Attitudinal barriers | 85.2 | (5.5) |
| II. Structural barriers among those with perceived need (n = 309) | II. Structural barriers among those with perceived need (n = 10) | ||||
| Financial | 7.3 | (2.5) | Financial | 43.1 | (21.0) |
| Availability | 8.9 | (2.6) | Availability | 14.8 | (12.0) |
| Transportation | 5.8 | (2.3) | Transportation or Inconvenient | 43.8 | (20.9) |
| Inconvenient | 6.4 | (2.4) | Any | 45.6 | (20.7) |
| Any | 10.3 | (2.7) | III. Attitudinal barriers among those with perceived need (n = 10) | ||
| III. Attitudinal barriers among those with perceived need (n = 309) | Wanted to handle on own | 83.0 | (10.6) | ||
| Wanted to handle on own | 82.0 | (3.1) | Perceived ineffectiveness | 51.4 | (19.2) |
| Perceived ineffectiveness | 9.4 | (2.5) | Stigma | 29.2 | (15.7) |
| Stigma | 4.7 | (2.2) | The problem got better | 0.0 | (0.0) |
| Thought would get better | 8.7 | (3.0) | Negative Experience with Treatment Provider | 45.6 | (20.7) |
| Problem was not severe | 13.5 | (3.3) | Any | 100.0 | (0.0) |
| Any | 98.9 | (0.6) | |||
Abbreviations. CIDI, Composite International Diagnostic Interview; SE, Standard Error: included to reflect uncertainty from weighted population sampling strategy.