Sociodemographic factors associated with treatment-seeking and treatment receipt: cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank participants with lifetime generalised anxiety or major depressive disorder

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety and depressive disorders can be chronic and disabling. Although there are effective treatments, only a fraction of those impaired receive treatment. Predictors of treatment-seeking and treatment receipt could be informative for initiatives aiming to tackle the burden of untreated anxiety and depression.

Aims

To investigate sociodemographic characteristics associated with treatment-seeking and treatment receipt.

Method

Two binary retrospective reports of lifetime treatment-seeking (n = 44 810) and treatment receipt (n = 37 346) were regressed on sociodemographic factors (age, gender, UK ethnic minority background, educational attainment, household income, neighbourhood deprivation and social isolation) and alternative coping strategies (self-med

SUBMITTER: Rayner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612017 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature