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Table 1 Characteristics of the sample of mena

From: Poorer mental well-being and prior unmet need for mental healthcare: a longitudinal population-based study on men in Sweden

  

Total sample

N = 1240

Non-need-perceivers

n = 947 b

Need-perceivers by care-seeking

n = 293

Care-seekers by perceived care-sufficiency

n = 182

Non-care-seekers

Care-seekers

Insufficient care-perceivers

Sufficient care-perceivers

n = 109 b

(37%)

n = 184b

(63%)

n = 52 c

(29%)

n = 130 c

(71%)

Time 1, 2008

 

n

% d

% d

% d

% d

% d

Age, years

19–30

221

18

24

14

21

12

31–50

567

45

51

49

56

46

51–64

452

38

25

37

23

42

Education

Primary or less

233

19

15

20

18

21

Secondary

568

46

57

43

41

43

University

428

35

28

37

41

36

Missing

11

     

Birth country

Nordic

1156

94

91

91

89

92

Others

84

6

9

9

12

8

Persistent physical illness

Yes

546

41

52

55

60

54

No

694

59

48

45

40

46

Persistent mental illness

Yes

42

0

3

19

23

18

No

1198

100

97

81

77

82

  1. aBy perceived need for mental healthcare, healthcare-seeking, and perceived sufficiency of healthcare at any time in life
  2. bStratified by “Have you at any time felt so mentally unwell that you felt a need to seek care?” (No, Yes but did not seek, Yes)
  3. cStratified by “Do you think you received the care that you needed?” (No, Yes). Disperse numbers due to n = 2 with missing data on the question
  4. dColumn proportions. Valid proportions, missing values excluded