Health Care Utilization Among Those with Depressive Disorder

Abstract

This is a secondary data analysis of the 2011 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey to examine predictors for health service utilization among those with depressive disorder using the Andersen Model of Health Care Utilization. The results provide some indication that predisposing, enabling, and need based factors as outlined by the Andersen model indicate that there are some groups of people who than others utilization health care services.