National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS)
Organization
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description
- Annual collection of information on the services and characteristics of all known mental health treatment facilities in the US
- Biennial collection of information on numbers and demographics of persons served in these treatment facilities, starting in 2015
- Includes public and private psychiatric hospitals, non-federal general hospitals with separate psychiatric units, US Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, residential treatment centers for children and for adults, community mental health centers, outpatient or day treatment or partial hospitalization mental health facilities, multi-setting (non-hospital) mental health facilities
- Used to populate the mental health component of SAMHSA’s online Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator
Vintage/Release Frequency
NA
Observational Unit
Mental health treatment facility
Collection Methodology
Mail questionnaire
User Guide/Data Dictionary
Codebook and questionnaire available at same website as data download
Proposal or Application required?
No