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Table 3 Patient characteristics

From: Successful interventions on an organisational level to reduce violence and coercive interventions in in-patients with adjustment disorders and personality disorders

  1.11.2004–31.10.2005 1.11.2004–31.10.2005 1.11.2005–31.10.2006 1.11.2005–31.10.2006
  Adjustment disorders (ICD-10 F4) Personality disorders (ICD-10 F6) Adjustment disorders (ICD-10 F4) Personality disorders (ICD-10 F6)
N 160 127 154 147
% female 55.0% 64.6% 60.4% 76.9%*
Age (mean, years) 37.4 34.4 36.8 33.0
Length of stay (mean, days) 16.3 30.0 23.6* 31.6
Primary diagnosis Anxiety disorder (F 40.x, F 41.x) 14.4% Borderline (F 60.30, F 60.31) 70.0% Anxiety disorder (F 40.x, F 41.x) 14.3% Borderline (F 60.30, F 60.31) 70.7%
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (F 42.x) 6.3% Antisocial, histrionic, narcisstic (F 60.2, 60.4, 60.8) 12.6% Obsessive-compulsive disorder (F 42.x) 5.8% Antisocial, histrionic, narcisstic (F 60.2, 60.4, 60.8) 4.1%
  Stress and adjustment disorders (F 43.x) 74.4% Combined (F 61) 11.8% Stress and adjustment disorders (F 43.x) 72.7% Combined (F 61) 19.7%
   Other 5.6%   Other 5.5%
  Dissociative disorder (F 44.x) 1.3%   Dissociative disorder (F 44.x) 1.5%  
  Somatoform disorder (F 45.x) 3.1%   Somatoform disorder (F 45.x) 2.6%  
  Other 2.5%   Other 3.1%  
Secondary diagnosis 65% 68% 60% 65%
Secondary diagnosis substance abuse 24.4% 32.3% 14.3%* 39.4%
  1. * p < .05 sign. difference in comparison with the same diagnostic group in the other year
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Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

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