eprintid: 1518055
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title: Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. A survey carried out for NHS Digital by NatCen Social Research and
the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D07
divisions: F76
note: Published by NHS Digital part of the Government Statistical Service. NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Copyright © 2016. You may re-use this publication (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium,
under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence).
abstract: TRENDS IN MENTAL ILLNESS: • One adult in six had a common mental disorder (CMD): about one woman in
five and one man in eight. Since 2000, overall rates of CMD in England steadily
increased in women and remained largely stable in men.
• Reported rates of self-harming increased in men and women and across age
groups since 2007. However, much of this increase in reporting may have been
due to greater awareness about the behaviour.
• Young women have emerged as a high-risk group, with high rates of CMD, selfharm,
and positive screens for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and bipolar
disorder. The gap between young women and young men increased.
• Most mental disorders were more common in people living alone, in poor physical
health, and not employed. Claimants of Employment and Support Allowance
(ESA), a benefit aimed at those unable to work due to poor health or disability,
experienced particularly high rates of all the disorders assessed.
TRENDS IN TREATMENT AND SERVICE USE: 
• One person in three with CMD reported current use of mental health treatment
in 2014, an increase from the one in four who reported this in 2000 and 2007.
This was driven by steep increases in reported use of psychotropic medication.
Increased use of psychological therapies was also evident among people with
more severe CMD symptoms.
• There were demographic inequalities in who received treatment. After controlling
for level of need, people who were White British, female, or in mid-life (especially
aged 35 to 54) were more likely to receive treatment. People in the Black ethnic
group had particularly low treatment rates.
• Socioeconomic inequalities in treatment use were less evident, although people
living in lower income households were more likely to have requested but not
received a particular mental health treatment.
• Since 2007, people with CMD had become more likely to use community services
and more likely to discuss their mental health with a GP.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publisher: NHS Digital
official_url: http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21748
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1180801
confidential: false
publication_declined: 2016-10-02T01:31:50BST
lyricists_name: Bebbington, Paul
lyricists_id: PEBEB37
actors_name: Bebbington, Paul
actors_id: PEBEB37
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Leeds, UK
pages: 405
editors_name: McManus, S
editors_name: Bebbington, P
editors_name: Jenkins, R
editors_name: Brugha, T
citation:    McManus, S and Bebbington, P and Jenkins, R and Brugha, T (Eds).  (2016)    Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. A survey carried out for NHS Digital by NatCen Social Research and the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester.                    NHS Digital: Leeds, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1518055/1/APMS%202014-full-rpt.pdf