FUNDAMENTAL FACTS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH 2016
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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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