Research Article

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

Table 2

Identified children, percent of referred children with ≥2 and ≥4 problem areas according to parent and/or teacher, mean and median number of problem areas above 95th percentile ( ).

Service Number of children% Children with ≥2 problems% Children with ≥4 problemsMean number of problemsMedian number of problems

CAMH 91%73%6.16
SPS 79%54%4.44
Physician/nurse 69%43%3.73
School support 66%40%3.53
No services 15.2%3.7%0.70