Higher or Lower!
Hello, everyone! Happy mental health awareness month.
The game Higher or Lower is where users are meant to guess where a statistic is higher or lower than the next. For example, do you think more people like cheeseburgers or more people like crisps? If you think it's the latter, say higher (because that'd mean that more people like crisps and it's higher than the number of people who like cheeseburgers).
Hopefully that makes sense! Three new prompts will be posted each day and the answers will be posted in replies so if you're doing this after the event please don't scroll down. I found all statistics online and am more than happy to be challenged if you have countering evidence!
Have fun, and have a great rest of week!
Prompt 3.3
In England, again, there was a survey about the people in contact with mental health services between 2014 and 2015. Which is higher - the percentage of people seeing a psychiatrist or the percentage of people seeing an outreach or family support worker?
@Imogene
Hmm.......
Lower - I think less people see a family support worker than a psychiatrist
@MonBon
Completely right! 6.8% see a psychiatrist whereas 5.4% see a family support worker.
@Imogene
I'm on fire *dances*
Prompt 4.1
Which is higher - the percentage of adults who experience mental illnesses in a given year, or the percentage of teens aged 13-18 who experience mental illnesses at some point during their lifetime?
@Imogene
this question confuses me :O do you mean individuals between 13-18 who have experience a mental illness at some point in their lives up until now or including the future or? #help
@MonBon
If I'm understanding the question correctly, I agree with @AffyAvo
@Imogene We don't even know the stats yet for those who are currently 13-18, but even just going with up to now 13 or 18 years would be higher than a single time point.
@MonBon @AffyAvo
Sorry - upon rereading I see that this doesnt make any sense. Please ignore this prompt!
@Imogene
Hehe, okay!
Prompt 4.2
Which is higher - the percentage of youths who struggle with depression and get sufficient treatment, or the percentage of adults who have a mental health condition?
@Imogene The adults would be higher.
@Imogene
Higher, I believe adults with a mental health issue outnumber children who have seen a healthcare professional for depression
@AffyAvo @MonBon
24% of youths struggling with depression get sufficient treatment whereas 20% of adults have a mental health condition - this was a tough one!
@Imogene
20% Seems really low D: I thought the percentage of GAD alone was something like 20% by itself. I'm glad more people are receiving help than I thought though!
Prompt 4.3
Which is higher - the percentage of people in England who struggle with phobias or the percentage of people in England who struggle with generalised anxiety disorder?
@Imogene Phobias, although the rate reported I would suspect is also lower, so this could depend on the method of gathering this information.
@Imogene
I believe the percentage of GAD is higher than those with reported phobias
@AffyAvo @MonBon
Really good point on the methods of data collection! The statistics I found suggested that 5.9% had Generalised Anxiety Disorder whereas 2.4% had phobias.
Prompt 5.1
Which is higher - the percentage of US students who say they are lonely or the percentage of US students who say they feel hopeless?
@Imogene
The percentage of US students who say they are lonely is higher
@Imogene
Mm.... hopefully the percentage of students who say they are hopeless is lower than the percentage who say they are lonely :(
@lovelyWhisper66 @MonBon
Exactly! 60.5% say they are lonely whereas 49.5% say they feel hopeless.
Prompt 5.2
Which is higher - the percentage of people in the UK who will experience a mental health problem each year, or the percentage of people in England who report experiencing a common mental health problem in any given week?
@Imogene
The percentage of people in England who report experiencing a common mental health problem in any given week is higher
@Imogene
I think percentage in a year is higher than in a given week
@lovelyWhisper66 @MonBon
25% say they experience a mental health problem in a year while 16.7% say they experience a common mental health problem each week.
Prompt 5.3
Which is higher - the number of people using community mental health services by the NHS who said that the person they saw most recently listened carefully to them in 2014 or 2015?
@Imogene
The number of people using community mental health services by the NHS who said that the person they saw most recently listened carefully to them in 2014 is higher
@Imogene
I don't actually know, but I'd like to think the service is improving! I'll say 2015 was higher
@lovelyWhisper66 @MonBon
In 2014 it was 73% whereas in 2015 it was 70% - unfortunately it declined.
@Imogene
So sad!
@MonBon @Jenna @AffyAvo @lovelyWhisper66
Thank you to everyone for participating! For reference, these are the links I used to get statistics:
- https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers
- https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/fundamental-facts-about-mental-health-2016
@Imogene
Thanks for this :D I learned a lot