Table 3 Service characteristics of children and youth receiving mental health services
Children (0–11 years) | Youth (12–25 years) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |
Episode-level characteristics | (n = 12,160) | (n = 115,879) | ||
Referrer profession | ||||
General practitioner | 10,359 | 85.2 | 49,642 | 42.8 |
Psychiatrist | 21 | 0.2 | 157 | 0.1 |
Obstetrician | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 |
Pediatrician | 424 | 3.5 | 94 | 0.1 |
Other medical specialist | 8 | 0.1 | 19 | 0.0 |
Midwife | 2 | 0.0 | 14 | 0.0 |
Maternal health nurse | 4 | 0.0 | 36 | 0.0 |
Psychologist | 151 | 1.2 | 123 | 0.1 |
Mental health nurse | 10 | 0.1 | 89 | 0.1 |
Social worker | 38 | 0.3 | 102 | 0.1 |
Occupational therapist | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 0.0 |
Aboriginal health worker | 1 | 0.0 | 19 | 0.0 |
Educational professional | 93 | 0.8 | 50 | 0.0 |
Early childhood service worker | 60 | 0.5 | 4 | 0.0 |
Other | 62 | 0.5 | 9682 | 8.4 |
N/A-self referral | 98 | 0.8 | 52,750 | 45.5 |
Unknown | 829 | 6.8 | 30,86 | 2.7 |
Completion status | ||||
Open (not completed) | 2367 | 19.5 | 5387 | 4.6 |
Treatment concluded | 799 | 6.6 | 65,288 | 56.3 |
Treatment closed for other reasons1 | 1075 | 8.8 | 2156 | 1.9 |
Unknown | 7919 | 65.1 | 43,048 | 37.1 |
Attended sessions | ||||
1 | 1809 | 14.9 | 34604 | 29.9 |
2 | 1550 | 12.7 | 17,075 | 14.7 |
3 | 1486 | 12.2 | 12,013 | 10.4 |
4 | 1363 | 11.2 | 9660 | 8.3 |
5 | 1346 | 11.1 | 7988 | 6.9 |
6 or more | 4606 | 37.9 | 34,539 | 29.8 |
Session characteristics | (n = 55,372) | (n = 348,173) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Session modality | ||||
Face to face | 53,550 | 96.7 | 331,588 | 95.2 |
Telephone | 1048 | 1.9 | 15,145 | 4.3 |
Video | 592 | 1.1 | 287 | 0.1 |
Internet-based | 182 | 0.3 | 1153 | 0.3 |
Session participants | ||||
Individual consumer | 36,971 | 66.8 | 326,204 | 93.7 |
Consumer group | 1697 | 3.1 | 14,892 | 4.3 |
Family/ support network | 16,333 | 29.5 | 3877 | 1.1 |
Other health professional or service provider | 88 | 0.2 | 1292 | 0.4 |
Other | 17 | 0.0 | 103 | 0 |
Unknown | 266 | 0.5 | 1805 | 0.5 |
Session duration | ||||
1–15 min | 475 | 0.9 | 10,626 | 3.1 |
16–30 min | 1036 | 1.9 | 27,161 | 7.8 |
31–45 min | 1859 | 3.4 | 2814 | 0.8 |
46–60 min | 46,879 | 84.7 | 220,477 | 63.3 |
61–120 min | 5049 | 9.0 | 81,880 | 24.0 |
> 120 mins | 74 | 0.1 | 5132 | 1.5 |
Unknown | 0 | 0.0 | 83 | 0.0 |