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Table 6 Numbers and rates of non-attendance or patient cancellation per 100 recorded contacts 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

Any individual recorded contact with a mental health team, n

Number of contacts that were not attended or cancelled by the patient, n

Crude DNA rate (per 100 contacts)

Standardised DNA rate (per 100 contacts)

Rate

95% LCL

95% UCL

Rate

LCL

UCL

A

White British

166,947

27,624

16.5

16.4

16.7

16.6

16.4

16.8

B

Irish

1734

188

10.8*

9.3

12.4

19.5

13.8

25.1

C

Other White backgrounds

16,308

2238

13.7*

13.2

14.3

14.8*

14.1

15.6

D

White and Black Caribbean

2041

399

19.5*

17.6

21.5

20.5*

16.9

24.1

E

White and Black African

693

143

20.6*

17.3

24.0

22.6

14.6

30.5

F

White and Asian

525

67

12.8*

9.7

15.8

22.3

13.0

31.6

G

Other mixed backgrounds

2162

370

17.1

15.4

18.9

17.2

14.4

19.9

H

Indian

3591

493

13.7*

12.5

14.9

16.0

13.3

18.7

J

Pakistani

7102

897

12.6*

11.8

13.5

12.7*

11.3

14.1

K

Bangladeshi

3737

519

13.9*

12.7

15.1

14.3

12.0

16.6

L

Other Asian backgrounds

3774

445

11.8*

10.7

12.9

16.6

13.1

20.0

M

Caribbean

3438

636

18.5*

17.1

19.9

20.1*

17.6

22.6

N

African

6481

890

13.7*

12.8

14.6

13.7*

11.6

15.7

P

Any other Black backgrounds

2171

409

18.8*

17.0

20.7

19.1

16.1

22.1

R

Chinese

780

82

10.5*

8.2

12.8

21.9

9.8

33.9

S

Other ethnic groups

7682

1099

14.3*

13.5

15.2

15.4

14.2

16.6

 

Not recorded

1925

389

20.2*

18.2

22.2

21.9

19.3

24.6

 

Total

231,091

       
  1. LCL lower confidence limit, UCL upper confidence limit
  2. *Proportion is significantly different (p < 0.05) from the White British group