Table 4.

Characteristics of HC clients having any psychiatry and/or mental health diagnoses, and by selected diagnostic groups, by province and urban/rural.

	WRHA	Nova Scotia				p
		All	Halifax	Urban	Rural	WRHA vs. NS	Halifax vs.	Urban non-Halifax
				non-Halifax			urban non-Halifax	vs. Rural
Home care clients (N)	5,278	5,323	1,306	1,755	2,262
Any psychiatry (%)	17.2	4.2	7.1	4.8	2.0	<0.0001	0.012	<0.0001
Any mental health diagnosis (%)	53.0	53.1	52.3	55.1	52.1	0.905	0.124	0.061
Any psychiatry among those with MH diagnosis (%)	27.4	7.4	13.2	8.1	3.6	<0.0001	0.001	<0.0001
Any psychiatry among those without MH diagnosis (%)	5.7	0.5	0.5	0.8	0.4	<0.0001	0.512	0.250
Anxiety disorder diagnosis
Prevalence (%)	23.1	20.3	20.7	20.3	20.1	0.0005	0.792	0.018
Any psychiatry among those (%)	29.1	10.0	17.0	11.2	4.8	<0.0001	0.037	0.001
Psychoses diagnosis
Prevalence (%)	13.4	15.8	19.6	17.9	12.0	0.0005	0.229	<0.0001
Any psychiatry among those (%)	49.4	12.0	21.5	10.8	4.4	<0.0001	0.0005	0.004
Acute reaction to stress or adjustment disorder Diagnosis
Prevalence (%)	4.4	4.3	6.0	3.9	3.5	0.813	0.007	0.522
Any psychiatry among those (%)	41.4	21.2	33.3	18.8	11.3	<0.0001	0.053	0.191
Diagnosis related to special symptoms including sleep, pain disorder
Prevalence (%)	1.9	5.6	6.1	6.1	5.0	<0.0001	0.974	0.128
Any psychiatry among those (%)	24.2	10.7	19.0	*	*	0.001	0.211	0.017
Diagnosis related to alcohol or drugs
Prevalence (%)	1.0	2.6	2.6	2.4	2.8	<0.0001	0.712	0.440
Any psychiatry among those (%)	50.0	7.2	14.7	*	*	<0.0001	0.487	0.061
Personality disorder diagnosis
Prevalence (%)	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.523	0.549	0.213
Any psychiatry among those (%)	62.9	29.4	*	35.7	*	0.005	0.512	0.122

^*Cell suppressed due to fewer than 5 persons. These are p values significant at the 0.05 (95% confidence) level.