Complementary primary mental health programs for young people in Australia: Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) and headspace

Table 1 Variables captured in the ATAPS and headspace minimum datasets

Variable	ATAPS	headspace
Sociodemographic characteristics
Gender	√	√
Age	√	√
Indigeneity	√	√
Postcode	√	√
Low income^a	√	√
Clinical characteristics
Previous history of mental health care^b	√	√
Diagnosis	√
Stage of illness^c		√
Treatment received
Number of sessions^d	√	√
Treatment received^e	√	√
Client copayment	√
Client outcomes
K-10	√	√
Other measures	√

ATAPS Access to Allied Psychological Services
^aLow income was determined according to the GP’s judgement in ATAPS and by receiving a government benefit via headspace
^bThere was relatively poor compliance with the completion of ‘previous history of mental health care’ in headspace
^cStage 1: mild or increased risk; Stage 2: moderate or sub-threshold; Stage 3: severe or full threshold
^d headspace delivers both psychological and non-psychological services. Only sessions in which psychological services were delivered were analysed and may be somewhat over-represented as multiple psychological services delivered in a single session are recorded as multiple services/sessions
^eTreatments explicitly involving behavioural interventions and/or cognitive interventions were classified as CBT; assessment, psycho-education, relaxation strategies, skills training and/or interpersonal therapy were classified as non-CBT