Table 1 Variables included in the study with definitions and data collection time points
Variable | Variable definition | Data collection time point | Data source |
|---|---|---|---|
Number of people in contact with mental health services per 100,000 populationa | People with an open Adult Mental Health Care Spell in NHS funded adult specialist mental health services at the end of the reporting period | Q3 2019 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Age | Median age of the population of the Clinical Commissioning Group(CCG) | Mid-2017 | Office for National Statistics (ONS) |
Gender | Percentage of the population who are male | 2017 | ONS |
Prevalence of severe mental illness (SMI) | The percentage of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and other psychoses as recorded on general practice disease registers. | 2017/2018 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Estimated prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) | The estimated proportion of the population aged 16 & over who have a common mental disorder (CMD), where CMD is defined as any type of depression or anxiety, model calculations based on Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) data applied to local demography | 2017 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Index of multiple deprivation score (IMD) | Measure of relative deprivation for small areas in England, which ranks every small area in England from 1 (most deprived) to 32,844 (least deprived) on the basis of income, employment, education skills and training, health, crime, housing and services, living environment | 2015 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Percentage unemployed | Claimant rate: Percentage of the working age population who are claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance plus those who claim Universal Credit and are required to seek work and be available for work | 2018/2019 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Proportion who are Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) | Number of people on the 2011 Census who stated their ethnicity as ‘not White’ as a proportion of the total number answering the ethnicity question on the 2011 Census, per 1000 population | 2011 (last census) | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Population density | Number of people per 10 ha | 2019 | Calculated using ONS Standard Area Measurements |
Access to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) | The number of people entering IAPT services as a proportion of those estimated to have anxiety and/or depression | March 2019 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |
Recovery in IAPT | This is the number of people not at ‘caseness’ (experiencing severe enough symptoms to be considered a clinical case) at their last session, as a percentage of people who were at ‘caseness’ at their first session | August 2019 | Public Health England’s Fingertips Database |