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Mental Health Status and Complications, St. Lucie County

Indicator	Rate Type	Year	Count	Percent	Confidence Interval
Age 18 and Older
Emergency Department Visits From Mental Disorders (Aged 18 Years and Older)	Rate Per 100,000 Population	2023	3,313	1,137.3
Hospitalizations From Mental Disorders (Aged 18 Years and Older)	Rate Per 100,000 Population	2023	3,255	1,117.4
Adults Who Are Limited in Any Way in Any Activities Because of Physical, Mental or Emotional Problems	Percent	2016		19.9	(15.2 - 24.6)
Adults Who Had Poor Mental Health on 14 or More of the Past 30 Days	Percent	2019		14.7	(11.3 - 18.1)
Adults Who Have Ever Been Told They Had a Depressive Disorder	Percent	2019		17.9	(14.3 - 21.4)
Adults Whose Poor Physical or Mental Health Kept Them From Doing Usual Activities on 14 or More of the Past 30 Days Among Adults Who Have Had at Least One Day of Poor Mental or Physical Health	Percent	2019		19.7	(14.6 - 24.9)
Adults With Good Mental Health	Percent	2019		85.3	(81.9 - 88.7)
Average Number of Unhealthy Mental Days in the Past 30 Days	Days	2019		4.6	(3.7 - 5.5)
Average Number of Days Where Poor Mental or Physical Health Interfered With Activities of Daily Living in the Past 30 Days Among Adults Who Have Had at Least One Day of Poor Mental or Physical Health	Days	2019		6.0	(4.7 - 7.4)
Age Less Than 18
Students With Emotional/Behavioral Disability (Kindergarten - 12th Grade)	Percent of K-12 Students	2023	195	0.4
Emergency Department Visits From Mental Disorders (Aged 0-17 Years)	Rate Per 100,000 Population	2023	283	406.3
Hospitalizations From Mental Disorders (Aged 0-17 Years)	Rate Per 100,000 Population	2023	518	743.6
Students Who, in the Past Year, Did Something to Purposely Hurt Themselves Without Wanting to Die	Percent	2022		18.9	(12.4 - 25.4)
Students Who, in the Past Year, Felt Sad or Hopeless for Two or More Weeks in a Row and Stopped Doing Usual Activities	Percent	2022		29.4	(22.8 - 36)
Students Who Did Not Go to School Because They Felt They Would Be Unsafe at School or on Their Way to School in the Past 30 Days	Percent	2022		8.6	(5.4 - 11.8)

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Data Note(s)

FLHealthCharts.gov is provided by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Public Health Statistics and Performance Management.

Confidence intervals (CI) are at 95%. Numbers in parenthesis show the lower and upper CI limits.
Data Sources
Age 18 and Older:
Estimated Seriously Mentally Ill Adults: based on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Behavioral Health Barometer:
Florida, Volume 4. HHS Publication No. SMA–17–Baro–16–States–FL. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2017.
Data source for all other indicators in this section: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Age Less Than 18:
Children in Schools Grades K-12 With Emotional/Behavioral Disability: Florida Department of Education.
Estimated Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Youth Estimates are based on Department of Health and Human Services report Mental Health, United States, 1996.
Data source for all other indicators in this section: Florida Youth Tobacco Survey.

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Mental Health Status and Complications

Mental Health Status and Complications, St. Lucie County

Data Note(s)

	Suicide and Behavioral Health Profile	Florida Department of Health Bureau of Community Health Assessment Division of Public Health Statistics and Performance Management


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