{"id":6143,"date":"2021-10-20T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2021-10-20T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:30:00","slug":"nchs-releases-two-new-reports-on-mental-health-among-u-s-adults-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/10\/20\/6143\/","title":{"rendered":"NCHS Releases Two New Reports on Mental Health Among U.S. Adults during Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"1 out of 5 U.S. adults (20.3%) received mental health treatment in the past 12 months, including 16.5% who had taken prescription medication for their mental health and 10.1% who received counseling or therapy by a mental health professional in 2020.<\/p>\n

The data is featured in a new report, “Mental Health Treatment Among Adults: United States, 2020<\/a>,” showing women were more likely than men to have received any mental health treatment. Non-Hispanic White adults (24.4%) were more likely than non-Hispanic Black (15.3%), Hispanic (12.6%), and non-Hispanic Asian (7.7%) adults to have received any mental health treatment.<\/p>\n

As the level of urbanization decreased, the percentage of adults who had taken medication for their mental health increased, and the percentage who had received counseling or therapy decreased.<\/p>\n

A second report, “Perceived Social and Emotional Support Among Adults: United States, July\u2013December 2020<\/a>,” released today found that more than 3 out of 4 U.S. adults (77.5%) reported receiving the social and emotional support they need during the second half of 2020.<\/p>\n

Social and emotional support was lower among Hispanic (70.9%), non-Hispanic black (71.6%), and non-Hispanic Asian (71.3%) adults compared with non-Hispanic white adults (81.2%).\u00a0The percentage of adults who always or usually received the social and emotional support they need was higher among adults who were married or living with a partner compared with adults not in those relationships.<\/p>\n

Social and emotional support increased as educational attainment and family income increased.\u00a0 A greater percentage of adults without disability (78.6%) received the social and emotional support they need compared with adults with disability (65.5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 out of 5 U.S. adults (20.3%) received mental health treatment in the past 12 months, including 16.5% who had taken prescription medication for their mental health and 10.1% who received counseling or therapy by a mental health professional in 2020. The data is featured in a new report, “Mental Health Treatment Among Adults: United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}