Table 4
Selected types of professional services accessed among those with a disorder that perceived a need for care, by contact with police and no contact with police, past 12 months, Canada, 2012

Table 4
Selected types of professional services accessed among those with a disorder that perceived a need for care, by contact with police and no contact with police, past 12 months, Canada, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Selected types of professional services accessed among those with a disorder that perceived a need for care. The information is grouped by Types of professional services accessed (appearing as row headers), Canadian population with a disorder and a perceived need for care, aged 15 and older, Contact with police and No contact with police, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Types of professional services accessed	Canadian population with a disorder and a perceived need for care, aged 15 and older
	Contact with police^Note †	No contact with police
	percent
Family doctor or general practitioner	48.9	52.4
Social worker or counsellor	28.7	25.3
Psychiatrist	22.4	22.2
Psychologist	22.2	19.8
Hospitalized	11.2^{Note E: Use with caution}	3.5^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *
Nurse	9.3^{Note E: Use with caution}	8.2
Total, professional services accessed^Note 1	76.9	72.0
^E use with caution (these data have a coefficient of variation from 16.6% to 33.3%) Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note 1. Includes a small proportion of respondents who reported using online therapy (e.g., e-therapy, online counselling) for help. Individual types of professional services cannot be added to create 'Total, professional services accessed' since categories are not mutually exclusive, meaning respondents may have utilized more than one type of professional service. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey — Mental Health, 2012.

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