77% of those surveyed did not consider seeking help in dealing with personal or emotional problems; 5% considered, but did not seek help, and an estimated 15% of the population actually sought help from a variety of sources.
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Of those surveyed, 17% of the women and 12% of the men sought help. 81% of the men and 74% of the women did not consider seeking help.
Survey respondents who had at least a high school education sought help more readily than those who did not.
Help-seeking behavior did not vary across income levels.
Among those surveyed, 91% had never been a member of a self-help group. 5% had participated in a self-help group during the past year and 3% were currently participating in a self-help group.
Respondents were most often familiar with the following agencies: emergency medicare centers, alcohol and drug abuse centers, community mental health agencies, child abuse services and crisis hotlines or help centers. 45% knew of a suicide prevention hotline.
“A community-based emergency center had been contacted by 30% of those sampled; less than 8% had ever contacted a community mental health agency, an alcohol or drug abuse center, a child abuse service, a crisis hotline or a stress service. 1% had contacted a battered woman’s shelter, a rape crisis center, a suicide prevention service or a Parents Anonymous group.”
Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania reports that for 136 persons who used insured outpatient psychiatric benefits, medical costs dropped from $16.47 to $7.06 per month.
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A Washington-based health maintenance organization reported that users of mental health counseling benefits reduced their nonpsychiatric physicians visits by 30.7% and lab X-ray services by 29.8%.
According to a study recently conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the costs of “executive stress” (based on conservative estimates) are as follows: cost of executive work-loss days: $2,861,775,800.; cost of executive hospitalization: $248,316,864.; cost of executive outpatient care: $131,058,235.; cost of executive mortality: $16,470,977,439.
Violent Crime
Police reports collected by the FBI indicate that the number of violent crimes in the nation increased by 4% between 1984 and 1985. Murder increased by 2%, forcible rape by 4%, robbery by 3%, and aggravated assault by 6%.
Each year about 6 million persons—3.2% of all Americans—are the victims of a violent crime.
Violent crime victims are more likely to be:
en rather than women (except for the crime of rape),
lacks rather than whites or members of other racial groups,
ispanics rather than non-Hispanics,
eople with low incomes (less than $7,500 per year).
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In 1981, an estimated $223 million in medical expenses was incurred by victims of assaults, robberies, and rapes.