Most Americans want primary care providers to address mental health, survey finds

Medical Xpress November 21, 2024
Sarah Fioroni and Dan Witters, West Health Institute

A majority of Americans (70%) say they would prefer to be asked about both their physical and mental health during medical appointments with their primary care providers (PCPs). The finding from the new “West Health-Gallup Survey on Mental Health in America” comes as more than one in five U.S. adults, or 59.3 million people, were living with a mental illness in 2022, and little more than half of them (50.6%) received treatment within the prior year.

According to the survey, the majority of men (65%) and women (76%) are eager to discuss both their mental and physical health with their primary care doctor. Women are 11 percentage points more likely than men to want to talk about both types of...

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