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Ramin Mojtabai, MD, PhD, MPH

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ramin Mojtabai, MD, PhD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Beth Israel Medical Center, First Avenue at 16th Street, New York, NY 10003 (e-mail: rm322@columbia.edu).

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McVeigh and Wunsch-Hitzig raise important points about my analyses and recommend further analyses to examine the prevalence of treatment contacts among more severely distressed individuals (those with K6 scores 19) and to examine urban–rural differences in the prevalence of significant psychological distress and in treatment contacts. I have performed such analyses.

Of the 196 101 adult participants in the National Health Interview Survey from 1997 through 2002, only 1372 (0.6%) met the narrower criteria for significant psychological distress (K6 19). Among these, only 39.6% had any contact with mental health professionals in the past year, 22.7% reported that they could . . . [Full Text]