Mental Healthcare Needed by One in Six Canadians
About one in six Canadians said they needed mental health care last year, Statistics Canada reports.
The findings are included in the agency's 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on mental health that was released Wednesday. The survey results were based on a national sample of more than 25,000 people 15 or older in the 10 provinces.
The need for mental health care was mainly for counselling, the survey suggests. Other mental health care needs were for medication and information.
"An estimated 600,000 had a perceived unmet mental health care need, and more than 1,000,000 had a partially met need," the report's authors said, extrapolating from the sample.