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Table 2 Proportion of Older Individuals With SMMI Who Received Outpatient Mental Health Treatment: Descriptive Results

From: Mental health treatment among older adults with mental illness on parole or probation

Characteristic

Proportion of Individuals With SMMI Who Received Any Treatment (%)

p-valuea

Parole or Probation

No

Yes

Total

61.4**

81.0**

<  0.001

Age

50–64

64.5**

83.6**

<  0.001

65 or over

50.4

50.0

1.000 (F)

Gender

Male

55.6*

79.1*

0.002

Female

64.4

83.3

0.018

Black Race

No

62.7*

80.3*

0.003

Yes

48.2

84.6

0.011 (F)

Hispanic Ethnicity

No

62.4**

81.7**

<  0.001

Yes

50.4

75.0

0.282 (F)

Married

No

61.8**

83.6**

< 0.001

Yes

61.1

72.2

0.334

Graduated High School

No

51.7

74.1

0.023

Yes

63.5*

84.6*

0.002

Employed

No

65.0*

83.3*

0.003

Yes

55.1

73.7

0.106

Income Poverty

No

61.2

79.2

0.011

Yes

62.3

83.9

0.015

Health Insurance

No

51.5

53.3

0.892

Yes

62.6**

87.5**

< 0.001

Substance Use Disorder

No

61.2

78.7

0.014

Yes

63.2

84.4

0.016

Poor or Fair

Self-Rated Health

No

60.7

78.1

0.025

Yes

62.3*

84.2*

0.006

  1. * p < 0.01; ** p < 0.001
  2. a(F) = Fisher’s exact test used. Otherwise, Chi-Squared tests were used