Mental Health Services Use Predicted by Number of Mental Health Problems and Gender in a Total Population Study

Table 4

Identified children, percent of referred children above 95th percentile on ≥2 and ≥4 problem areas, mean and median number of problem areas above 95th percentile. Based on teacher information only (lacking sleep and eating problems) (𝑁=6295).

Service	Number of children	% Children with ≥2 problems	% Children with ≥4 problems	Mean number of problems	Median number of problems
CAMH	𝑁=101	81%	62%	4.4	5
SPS	𝑁=398	64%	38%	3.1	2.5*
Physician/nurse	𝑁=327	56%	36%	2.8	2
School support	𝑁=690	46%	23%	2.1	1
No services	𝑁=5420	5.8%	1.0%	0.3	0

∗Out of 398 children, exactly 199 had ≤2 symptoms and 199 had ≥3 symptoms therefore the median is exactly between 2 and 3 symptoms.