Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and significance tests for patients across primary diagnostic groups for the in-patient sample (n = 2833) and for the emergency department sample (n = 1104)a
| Overall | Personality | Psychotic | Affective | Substance | Self-harm | F | χ2 | P | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-patients, nb | 2833 | 754 | 792 | 748 | 197 | 189 | |||||||||
| Age, years: mean (s.d.) | 40.76 | (16.67) | 36.61 | (14.17) | 41.59 | (14.88) | 46.00 | (18.84) | 34.14 | (12.96) | 39.55 | (17.45) | 42.17 | – | <0.001 |
| Women, n (%) | 1365 | (48.2) | 363 | (48.1) | 330 | (41.7) | 411 | (54.9) | 71 | (36.0) | 109 | (57.7) | 45.57 | – | <0.001 |
| Marital status, n (%) | 219.00 | <0.001 | |||||||||||||
| Married | 692 | (24.9) | 185 | (24.9) | 106 | (13.9) | 267 | (36.2) | 27 | (13.9) | 65 | (34.9) | – | – | – |
| Single | 1485 | (53.5) | 400 | (53.8) | 526 | (69.0) | 272 | (36.9) | 131 | (67.5) | 77 | (41.4) | – | – | – |
| Divorce/separated | 476 | (17.2) | 142 | (19.1) | 104 | (13.6) | 143 | (19.4) | 34 | (17.5) | 35 | (18.8) | – | – | – |
| Widowed | 121 | (4.4) | 16 | (2.2) | 26 | (3.4) | 56 | (7.6) | 2 | (1.0) | 9 | (4.8) | – | – | – |
| Australian born, n (%) | 2363 | (84.0) | 664 | (88.5) | 641 | (81.7) | 600 | (80.5) | 177 | (90.8) | 156 | (83.4) | – | 28.11 | <0.001 |
| English language, n (%) | 2767 | (98.0) | 743 | (98.8) | 764 | (97.1) | 734 | (98.4) | 196 | (99.5) | 187 | (98.9) | – | 9.96 | 0.041 |
| Emergency department, nc | 1104 | 226 | 326 | 300 | 81 | 113 | |||||||||
| Age, years: mean (s.d.) | 42.08 | (16.43) | 38.66 | (13.72) | 41.79 | (14.50) | 47.76 | (18.22) | 34.31 | (12.66) | 37.33 | (16.16) | 20.32 | – | <0.001 |
| Women, n (%) | 534 | (48.4) | 112 | (49.6) | 139 | (42.6) | 153 | (51.0) | 30 | (37.0) | 71 | (62.8) | 18.88 | – | <0.001 |
| Marital status, n (%) | |||||||||||||||
| Married | 273 | (25.1) | 62 | (27.8) | 44 | (13.8) | 105 | (35.5) | 12 | (15.2) | 36 | (32.1) | – | – | – |
| Single | 575 | (52.9) | 116 | (52.0) | 223 | (70.1) | 101 | (34.1) | 53 | (67.1) | 55 | (49.1) | – | – | – |
| Divorce/separated | 187 | (17.2) | 40 | (17.9) | 43 | (13.5) | 60 | (20.3) | 14 | (17.7) | 19 | (17.0) | – | – | – |
| Widowed | 51 | (4.7) | 5 | (2.2) | 8 | (2.5) | 30 | (10.1) | 0 | – | 2 | (1.8) | – | – | – |
| Australian born, n (%) | 919 | (83.7) | 198 | (88.4) | 270 | (83.3) | 240 | (80.0) | 73 | (91.3) | 91 | (81.3) | – | 10.55 | 0.03 |
| English language, n (%) | 1074 | (97.5) | 221 | (98.2) | 312 | (96.0) | 293 | (97.7) | 81 | (100.0) | 112 | (99.1) | – | 7.04 | 0.13 |
a.
Missing data. In-patient sample: marital status n = 59, Australian born n = 19, language n = 10. Emergency department sample: marital status n = 18, Australian born n = 6, language n = 2.
b.
For the in-patient sample there were 58 (5.3%) individuals who had no diagnoses within these groups.
c.
For emergency department sample there were a total of 153 individuals who had diagnoses that did not fall into any of the main diagnostic groups (5.4%).