Table 3.
Characteristics of people living with severe mental illnesses in primary care database, sample restricted to adults aged 18+
| Not on SMI registera
N = 997,731 |
Severe mental illness (SMI register)a
N = 15,385 |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | |
| Age (mean, SD) | 40 (15.5) | 47 (15.3) | 993,116 | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Men | 494,304 | 51 | 8488 | 55 | 502,792 |
| Women | 483,426 | 49 | 6897 | 45 | 490,323 |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| White British | 238,211 | 27 | 4403 | 31 | 242,614 |
| Irish | 13,459 | 2 | 286 | 2 | 13,745 |
| ‘Other’ white | 171,493 | 20 | 1442 | 10 | 172,935 |
| Indian | 60,298 | 7 | 566 | 4 | 60,864 |
| Pakistani | 35,215 | 4 | 381 | 3 | 35,596 |
| Bangladeshi | 93,143 | 11 | 1500 | 10 | 94,643 |
| Black Caribbean | 43,367 | 5 | 1646 | 11 | 45,013 |
| Black African | 74,037 | 9 | 1417 | 10 | 75,454 |
| ‘Other’/Chinese | 110,094 | 13 | 2027 | 14 | 112,121 |
| Mixed ethnicity | 27,877 | 3 | 717 | 5 | 28,594 |
| Area-level deprivation (quintiles) | |||||
| 1 Most deprived | 587,820 | 64 | 10,437 | 71 | 589,257 |
| 2 | 261,966 | 29 | 3550 | 24 | 265,516 |
| 3 | 51,207 | 6 | 521 | 4 | 51,728 |
| 4 | 10,396 | 1.1 | 96 | 0.7 | 10,492 |
| 5 Least deprived | 4626 | 0.5 | 21 | 0.1 | 4647 |
aSevere mental illness refers to patients with any of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder and any non-organic psychosis
p < 0.001 for all sociodemographic variables; comparing SMI to non-SMI group