Table 1.
Change in assessment volume, by characteristic, during wave 1 and wave 2, compared to one year prior.
| Wave 1 (4 months) | Wave 2 (5 months) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristicsa | Mar 2019 | Mar 2020 | % change | P value | Sep 2019 | Sep 2020 | % change | P value |
| to Jun 2019 | to Jun 2020 | to Jan 2020 | to Jan 2021 | |||||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||||
| Total number of assessments (ChYMH, ChYMH-DD, and ChYMH-S) | 9,953 | 5,690 | −42.8% | 11,176 | 8,343 | −25.3% | ||
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| 7 & under | 1,803 (18.1%) | 944 (16.6%) | −47.6% | 0.262 | 1,833 (16.4%) | 1,067 (12.8%) | −41.8%* | <0.0001 |
| 8–11 | 3,392 (34.1%) | 1,672 (29.5%) | −50.7%* | <0.0001 | 3,451 (30.9%) | 2,327 (27.9%) | −32.6%* | <0.0001 |
| 12–15 | 3,567 (35.9%) | 2,198 (38.7%) | −38.4%* | 0.048 | 3,984 (35.7%) | 3,376 (40.5%) | −15.3%* | <0.0001 |
| 16–21 | 1,181 (11.9%) | 863 (15.2%) | −26.9%* | <0.0001 | 1,889 (16.9%) | 1,560 (18.7%) | −17.4%* | 0.001 |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Males | 5,253 (52.9%) | 2,801 (49.3%) | −46.7%* | <0.0001 | 5,938 (53.2%) | 3,780 (45.4%) | −36.3%* | <0.0001 |
| Females | 4,678 (47.1%) | 2,876 (50.7%) | −38.5%* | 5,221 (46.8%) | 4,539 (54.6%) | −13.1%* | ||
| First assessment for this client in this agency | 6,470 (65.0%) | 3,374 (59.3%) | −47.9%* | 7,305 (65.4%) | 5,132 (61.5%) | −29.7%* | <0.0001 | |
| Method of Assessmentb | ||||||||
| Conducted in person | 2,443 (83.6%) | 422 (19.8%) | −82.7%* | <0.0001 | 2,791 (81.3%) | 538 (16.7%) | −80.7%* | <0.0001 |
| Phone | 478 (16.4%) | 1,255 (58.8%) | +162.6%* | <0.0001 | 629 (18.3%) | 1,572 (48.8%) | +149.9%* | <0.0001 |
| Video | 2 (0.1%) | 459 (21.5%) | +22,850%* | <0.0001 | 11 (0.3%) | 1,114 (34.6%) | +10,027%* | <0.0001 |
| Primary language | ||||||||
| English | 9,388 (94.3%) | 5,484 (96.4%) | −41.6%* | <0.0001 | 10,774 (96.4%) | 8,019 (96.1%) | −25.6% | 0.295 |
| French | 194 (1.9%) | 84 (1.5%) | −56.7%* | 0.031 | 175 (1.6%) | 131 (1.6%) | −25.1% | 0.981 |
| Other | 370 (3.7%) | 121 (2.1%) | −67.3%* | < .0001 | 227 (2.0%) | 192 (2.3%) | −15.4% | 0.198 |
| Area median household income quartile after tax | ||||||||
| 1st < $57,367 | 2,910 (30.0%) | 1,624 (28.8%) | −44.2% | 0.356 | 3,406 (30.8%) | 2,252 (27.3%) | −33.9%* | <0.0001 |
| 2nd $57,367 to $70,334 | 2,204 (22.7%) | 1,307 (23.2%) | −40.7% | 0.234 | 2,567 (23.2%) | 1,912 (23.1%) | −25.5% | 0.933 |
| 3rd $70,335 to $84,750 | 2,759 (28.4%) | 1,613 (28.6%) | −41.5% | 0.400 | 3,052 (27.6%) | 2,407 (29.1%) | −21.1%* | 0.018 |
| 4th > $84,750 | 1,828 (18.8%) | 1,092 (19.4%) | −40.3% | 0.203 | 2,048 (18.5%) | 1,689 (20.4%) | −17.5%* | 0.001 |
a
Some characteristics do not total 100% due to small number of missing responses.
b
ChYMH and ChYMH-DD assessments only.
*
Denotes significance, p <0.05.