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Demographic and clinical characteristics of the two groups (2).
| Voluntary admission (n = 755) | Involuntary admission (n = 2978) | Statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Z | P | |
| Length of illness (months) | 107.71 | 109.68 | 126.69 | 139.02 | −1.210 | 0.226 |
| Number of hospitalizations | 1.03 | 2.19 | 2.14 | 3.89 | −7.463 | 0.000 |
