Table 4 Service use components included in epidemiological surveys of Indigenous people
Survey | Interview schedule obtained | Hospital admissions | Medication | Health professionals consulted | Number, duration, payment and location of consultations | Interventions received | Support services or self-management strategies | Perceived need for care | Barriers to care | Treatment dropout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aboriginal People’s Survey 2006 (Canada) [30] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Aboriginal People’s Survey 2012 (Canada) [31] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
American Indian Services Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (United States) [35] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Arizona Health Survey (United States) [37] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (Australia) [34] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
California Health Interview Survey – Adult (United States) [36] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
First Nations Regional Health Survey – Adult (Canada) [32] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
New Zealand Mental Health Survey (New Zealand) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
The Nunavik Inuit Health Survey (Canada) [33] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
N (out of 9): | 9 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 0 |