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Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical description of the sample

From: Discrepancies between survey and administrative data on the use of mental health services in the general population: findings from a study conducted in Québec

 

Agreement

CCHS-RAMQ

(n = 157)a

Disagreement

CCHS-RAMQ

(n = 481 )a

Total sample

(n = 637)a

Socio-demographic profile

   

   Age

   

Mean

42.85 ± 13.24

51.35 ± 15.53

49.26 ± 15.43

18-64 years

150 (95.5%)

370 (76.9%)

520 (81.5%)

65 and over

7 (4.5%)

111 (23.1%)

118 (18.5%)

   Gender

   

Men

50 (31.8%)

190 (39.5%)

240 (37.6%)

Women

107 (68.2%)

291 (60.5%)

398 (62.4%)

   Education

   

No high school diploma

30 (19.4%)

144 (31.0%)

174 (28.1%)

High school diploma

32 (20.6%)

93 (20.0%)

125 (20.2%)

Post-high school diploma

54 (34.8%)

142 (30.5%)

196 (31.6%)

University diploma

39 (25.2%)

86 (18.5%)

125 (20.2%)

   Employment status

   

Workers

103 (66.0%)

299 (62.3%)

402 (63.2%)

Non workers

53 (34.0)

181 (37.7%)

234 (36.8%)

   Marital status

   

With spouse

61 (39.1%)

295 (61.3%)

356 (55.9%)

Without spouse

95 (60.9%)

186 (38.7%)

281 (44.1%)

   Parental status

   

With young children

51 (32.7%)

132 (27.4%)

183 (28.7%)

Without young children

105 (67.3%)

349 (72.6%)

454 (71.3%)

Psychiatric disorder

   

   Based on CCHS-1.2 (DSM-IV)b

   

Mood disorder

73 (46.5%)

27 (5.6%)

100 (15.7%)

Anxiety disorder

35 (22.2%)

19 (4.0%)

54 (8.5%)

Neither mood nor anxiety disorder

70 (44.6%)

439 (91.3%)

509 (79.9%)

   Based on RAMQ (ICD-9)a

   

Neurotic disorder

83 (52.9%)

190 (39.5%)

236 (37.0%)

Psychotic disorder

31 (19.7%)

16 (3.3%)

37 (5.8%)

Other psychiatric disorder

26 (16.6%)

55 (11.4%)

66 (10.4%)

  1. a Un-weighted number of respondents. The other numbers in the Table are weighted.
  2. b The percentages for psychiatric disorders are not additive since an individual can have more than one disorder