Table 1.
Diagnostic service and cultural background characteristics of psychiatric patients with a history of hospitalization who have or have not received orders for conditional release
| Patients with a history of hospitalization (N=24,973) | Patients ever conditionally released (N=8,879) | Patients not conditionally released (N = 16,094) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| Age at entry to mental health system (M±SD)a | 36.5±18.9 | 33.3±17.2 | 38.3±19.6 | |||
| Diagnosis | ||||||
| Dementia or other nervous system disorder | 2,333 | 9 | 872 | 10 | 1,681 | 10 |
| Schizophrenia disorder | 14,634 | 59 | 6,911 | 78 | 7,723 | 48 |
| Paranoia and acute psychotic disorder | 616 | 2 | 194 | 2 | 422 | 3 |
| Major affective disorder | 3,279 | 13 | 628 | 7 | 2,651 | 17 |
| Other disorder | 4,111 | 16 | 274 | 3 | 3,617 | 22 |
| Lifetime inpatient days (M±SD) | 96.3±265.7 | 131.1±282.0 | 77.0±254.3 | |||
| Treatment days per community care episode (M±SD)b | 27.9±46.5 | 35.6±44.9 | 23.0±46.8 | |||
| Country of birthc | ||||||
| Australia | 18,530 | 74 | 6,453 | 73 | 12,077 | 75 |
| English-speaking background | 1,543 | 6 | 480 | 5 | 1,063 | 7 |
| Non–English-speaking background | 4,339 | 17 | 1,820 | 21 | 2,519 | 16 |
| Unknown | 561 | 2 | 126 | 1 | 435 | 3 |
a
Information on age was unavailable for five patients in this subgroup.
b
Data were available for 22,368 patients: 8,878 with conditional release experience and 13,590 without conditional release experience.
c
Information on race and ethnicity was not available.