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Table 2 Numbers and rates of community contact with mental health services per 1000 births by ethnicity (crude and standardised by age and deprivation)

From: Differences in access and utilisation of mental health services in the perinatal period for women from ethnic minorities—a population-based study

 

Ethnicity

All 18+, birth episodes, n

Women with a mental health contact, n

Crude rate (per 1000)

Standardised rate (per 1000)

Rate

95% LCL

95% UCL

Rate

LCL

UCL

A

White British

398,769

16,886

42.3

41.7

43.0

42.4

41.8

43.1

B

Irish

3394

113

33.4*

27.5

40.1

38.6

31.1

47.3

C

Other White backgrounds

71,944

1523

21.2*

20.1

22.3

21.6*

20.6

22.8

D

White and Black Caribbean

3504

204

58.2*

50.5

66.8

51.7*

43.8

60.6

E

White and Black African

1629

65

40.1

31.0

51.1

45.1

33.9

58.7

F

White and Asian

1957

59

30.2*

23.0

39.0

31.2*

23.5

40.6

G

Other mixed backgrounds

4459

208

46.7

40.5

53.5

45.1

39.0

51.8

H

Indian

20,134

318

15.8*

14.1

17.6

17.3*

14.8

20.1

J

Pakistani

27,052

556

20.6*

18.9

22.3

19.4*

17.3

21.7

K

Bangladeshi

9520

223

23.5*

20.5

26.8

22.2*

18.1

26.9

L

Other Asian backgrounds

14,653

324

22.1*

19.8

24.7

22.0*

19.4

24.8

M

Caribbean

5474

264

48.3

42.6

54.5

43.9

37.8

50.7

N

African

20,188

437

21.6*

19.6

23.8

25.2*

21.9

28.7

P

Any other Black backgrounds

4630

196

42.3

36.6

48.7

42.5

35.2

50.9

R

Chinese

4285

81

18.8*

14.9

23.4

23.3*

16.5

31.8

S

Other ethnic groups

23,500

615

26.2*

24.1

28.3

25.7*

23.6

28.0

 

Total

615,092

22,072

      
  1. The table shows the number of women with one or more mental health contacts during the perinatal period (PNP) where the first contact is within PNP and the total number of birth episodes in 2017 (events with missing ethnicities are included; assumed to be missing at random and are apportioned across all ethnicities in proportion to known ethnicities)
  2. Crude and directly age-standardised rates per 1000 birth episodes are shown along with corresponding 95% confidence intervals
  3. LCL lower confidence limit, UCL upper confidence limit
  4. *Rate is significantly different (p < 0.05) from the White British group