ACTGHS any mental health condition, children

20.6% of respondents to the 2021 ACT General Health Survey aged 5-17 years reported that they had been told by a doctor that they have a mental health condition. There was no significant difference between males (19.1%) and females (20.5%) in 2021. 

Any mental health condition is defined as answering yes to being told by a doctor that they have anxiety, depression, a stress-related problem or other mental health issues. It includes respondents with single or multiple diagnosed mental health conditions.

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Data for children are not collected every third year (i.e. 2019 and 2022).

Responses for children aged 5-15 years were provided by the parent/carer who knows the most about the child's health. Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

The 2018 female estimate has a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.