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4.2 How many people seek help<br />

and use services?<br />

Treatment statistics<br />

• For those with common mental<br />

health problems, 36.2% reported<br />

receiving treatment. The proportion<br />

of people with a common mental<br />

health problem using mental<br />

health treatment has significantly<br />

• The 2014 APMS found that one<br />

increased. Around one person in<br />

adult in eight (12.1%) reported<br />

four aged 16–74 with symptoms of<br />

receiving mental health treatment,<br />

a common mental health problem<br />

with 10.4% receiving medication<br />

was receiving some kind of mental<br />

and 3% receiving psychological<br />

health treatment in 2000 (23.1%)<br />

therapy. The overlap within the<br />

and 2007 (24.4%). By 2014, this has<br />

statistics is due to 1.3% of those<br />

increased to more than one in three<br />

receiving treatment reporting<br />

(37.3%) (see Figure 4a).<br />

receiving both medication and<br />

%<br />

40<br />

35<br />

30<br />

25<br />

20<br />

37.3%<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

23.1%<br />

24.4%<br />

0<br />

2000 2007 2014<br />

Figure 4a. Percentage of people with common mental health problems<br />

receiving treatment in 2000, 2007 and 2014<br />

Lubian, K., Weich, S., Stansfeld, S., Bebbington, P., Brugha, T., Spiers, N., … Cooper, C. (<strong>2016</strong>). Chapter 3: Mental<br />

health treatment and services. In S. McManus, P. Bebbington, R. Jenkins, & T. Brugha (Eds.), Mental health and<br />

wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. Leeds: NHS Digital.<br />

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