Table 1

Participants in the face-to-face interview. Demographic characteristics in cases with and without mental health care contact and in mentally healthy.


A Cases with contact N = 125
B Cases without contact N = 105
C Mentally healthy N = 128
Total N = 358
p-value

Male
48 (38%)
48 (46%)
52 (41%)
148 (41%)
n.s.
Female
77 (62%)
57 (54%)
76 (59%)
210 (59%)
n.s.






20–34 years
24 (19%)
46 (44%)
29 (23%)
99 (28%)
B>A, p < 0.001
B>C, p = 0.001
35–49 years
42 (34%)
30 (28%)
42 (33%)
114 (32%)
n.s.
50–64 years
59 (47%)
29 (28%)
57 (44%)
145 (40%)
A>B, P = 0.02
C>B, p = 0.008

Dahlberg et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:8   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-8