Implementing child and youth mental health services: early lessons from the Australian Primary Health Network Lead Site Project

Table 2 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of children and youth receiving mental health services

	Children (0–11 years)		Youth (12–25 years)
	Frequency	%	Frequency	%
Consumer characteristics	(n = 11,627)		(n = 108,743)
Gender
Female	4874	41.9	62,572	57.5
Male	6696	57.6	39,658	36.5
Other	6	0.1	1321	1.2
Unknown	51	0.4	5192	4.8
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
Yes	1172	10.1	9618	8.8
No	7384	63.5	87,178	80.2
Unknown	3071	26.4	11,947	11.0
Remoteness area
Major cities of Australia	6585	56.6	65,374	60.1
Inner regional Australia	2933	25.2	28,425	26.1
Outer regional Australia	1748	15.0	12,559	11.5
Remote Australia	217	1.9	17,36	1.6
Very remote Australia	94	0.8	503	0.5
Unknown	50	0.4	146	0.1
Social disadvantage¹
High	3103	26.7	22,475	20.7
High to moderate	3007	25.9	23,804	21.9
Moderate	2486	21.4	24,973	23.0
Moderate to low	1823	15.7	18,472	17.0
Low	1158	10.0	18,851	17.3
Unknown	50	0.4	168	0.2
Diagnosis
Anxiety disorders	1527	13.1	19,510	17.9
Affective disorders	197	1.7	17,661	16.2
Substance use disorders	3	0.0	762	0.7
Psychotic disorders	8	0.1	429	0.4
Disorders of childhood and adolescence	721	6.2	2343	2.2
Other mental disorders	270	2.3	3005	2.8
Subsyndromal problems/no formal diagnosis	5649	48.6	36,048	33.1
Unknown	3252	28.0	28,985	26.7

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