Kooth mental health barometer
Kooth’s Mental Health Barometer offers an up-to-date snapshot of how children, young people and adults across the UK are faring.
Data is recorded by our mental health practitioners, along with our clinical and professional moderating teams. This is incredibly valuable in helping us understand how needs are changing over time and in enhancing our support.
Top 10 Presenting Issues
In the last 12 months in all UK regions, all ages, genders and ethnicities.
About this data
Last updated: 30th August 2025
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Data informing the barometer is drawn from the issues experienced by those using our services, whether they choose to engage in one-to-one chats, use their online journal or submit a comment, article or poem to the platform.
11,970 service users across the UK contributed to the data in this date-range.
Recording presenting issues helps us to provide effective care, ensuring that support is centred around an individual’s current needs and concerns. It helps to keep our community safe: practitioners in one-to-one sessions are able to address issues described in an individual’s case notes and offer relevant support.
Data and insights from our service, including the topline presenting issue data shared here, means we are able to:
Shape our service to meet people’s wants and needs
Understand the difficulties people are experiencing and how these may differ according to factors like geography, gender, ethnicity and age
Continually adapt and enhance our service, especially looking at prevalence and how needs are changing over time
Develop targeted support to meet the needs of specific cohorts, such as young people feeling worried about exams or those who may be self-harming
Share our learning with the NHS and others so that we can achieve greater and accelerated progress
As we are not a diagnostic service, these presenting issues reflect the concerns expressed by our service users, rather than any specific diagnoses
Issues are recorded in an individual’s case notes. In some cases, there may be more than one presenting issue added to one person’s notes
