Table 3.
Number of health service contacts in 46 patients allocated to intervention and 48 patients allocated to usual treatment between end of treatment phase and six month follow up
Type of contact | Intervention
|
Treatment as usual
|
P value for difference* | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (SD) | Median (range) | Mean (SD) | Median (range) | |||
Inpatient | 0.2 (0.62) | 0 (0-3) | 0.35 (1.7) | 0 (0-12) | 0.86 | |
Outpatient | 1.0 (2.6) | 0 (0-13) | 0.5 (1.3) | 0 (0-5) | 0.30 | |
Accident and emergency | 0.52 (0.78) | 0 (0-3) | 0.4 (0.76) | 0 (0-3) | 0.31 | |
Other mental health professionals | 4.0 (11.5) | 0 (0-72) | 3.1 (8.1) | 0 (0-43) | 0.93 | |
General practitioner | 4.7 (5.9) | 2 (0-27) | 4.7 (5.9) | 3 (0-26) | 0.91 |
Mann-Whitney U test.