Figure 13.3. Age-sex-adjusted percent of adults aged 18 years and over who experienced serious psychological distress during the past 30 days, by race/ethnicity: United States, January - June 2002

NOTES: Six psychological distress questions are included in the Sample Adult Core component.  These questions ask how often a respondent experienced symptoms of psychological distress during the past 30 days.  The response codes (0-4) of the six items for each person are summed to yield a scale with a 0-24 range.  A value of 13 or more for this scale is used here to define serious psychological distress (1). 

DATA SOURCE: Based on data collected from January through June in the Sample Adult Core component of the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.

The age-sex-adjusted prevalence of serious psychological distress was 3.6% for Hispanic persons, 2.8% for white non-Hispanic persons, and 2.8% for black non-Hispanic persons.

Although the prevalence was higher among Hispanic persons than among white non-Hispanic persons and black non-Hispanic persons, the differences were not statistically significant.

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