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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