Table 1.
Demographic information for all individuals referred to EIP service. numbers represent either median (IQR) for continuous variables or proportions for categorical variables
| Implementation site | Comparator site | |||||
| Baseline (n=123) | Year 1 (n=416) | Year 2 (n=463) | Baseline (n=237) | Year 1 (n=271) | Year 2 (n=252) | |
| Age (years) | 22.4 (19.3 to 28.2) | 21.4 (19.0 to 26.1) | 21.6 (19.0 to 25.9) | 19.4 (16.7 to 24.9) | 19.7 (17.1 to 24.8) | 21.8 (17.9 to 30.3) |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 35% | 40% | 39% | 43% | 40% | 38% |
| Male | 65% | 60% | 61% | 57% | 60% | 62% |
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| White | 88% | 89% | 93% | 92% | 93% | 92% |
| Black or Black British | 5% | 3% | 3% | 1% | 3% | 1% |
| Asian or Asian British | 0% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Mixed race | 3% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 4% |
| Other | 5% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 3% | 2% |
| Accommodation status | ||||||
| Accommodation with MH care support | 3% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 0% |
| Accommodation with other support | 3% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 5% | 2% |
| Acute/long stay healthcare residential facility/hospital | 0% | 0% | 1% | 3% | 8% | 13% |
| Homeless | 7% | 9% | 13% | 10% | 8% | 7% |
| Mainstream housing | 88% | 86% | 80% | 79% | 76% | 76% |
| Bail/probation hostel | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment status | ||||||
| Employed | 38% | 20% | 29% | 24% | 26% | 20% |
| Unemployed | 26% | 38% | 40% | 48% | 40% | 54% |
| Homemaker | 1% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 1% |
| Student | 16% | 15% | 14% | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| Long-term sickness/disability benefit | 15% | 16% | 12% | 9% | 5% | 5% |
| Statutory sick pay | 0% | 3% | 0% | 5% | 9% | 3% |
| Retired | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Other | 3% | 6% | 4% | 0% | 4% | 4% |
| Change in employment status during EIP | ||||||
| No reported change | 58 (84%) | 107 (91%) | 124 (100%) | 128 (88%) | 163 (97%) | 88 (86%) |
| Became employed | 0 (0%) | 4 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 13 (9%) | 2 (1%) | 5 (5%) |
| Left employment/became unemployed | 10 (14%) | 4 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (3%) | 2 (1%) | 3 (3%) |
| Other | 1 (1%) | 3 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) | 6 (6%) |
| Referral source | ||||||
| Primary care | 75 (62%) | 256 (63%) | 283 (62%) | 143 (60%) | 172 (63%) | 139 (55%) |
| Community mental health service | 19 (16%) | 66 (16%) | 104 (23%) | 14 (6%) | 26 (10%) | 14 (6%) |
| Inpatient mental health service | 1 (1%) | 21 (5%) | 15 (3%) | 12 (5%) | 16 (6%) | 4 (2%) |
| A&E department | 11 (9%) | 20 (5%) | 21 (5%) | 5 (2%) | 13 (5%) | 23 (9%) |
| Physical healthcare service | 0 (0%) | 13 (3%) | 8 (2%) | 4 (2%) | 8 (3%) | 2 (1%) |
| Caring and social services | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (1%) | 10 (4%) | 5 (2%) | 11 (4%) |
| Education service | 0 (0%) | 6 (1%) | 4 (1%) | 12 (5%) | 7 (3%) | 8 (3%) |
| Police/prison/probation | 9 (7%) | 8 (2%) | 11 (2%) | 14 (6%) | 11 (4%) | 25 (10%) |
| Self-referral | 1 (1%) | 2 (0%) | 2 (0%) | 12 (5%) | 6 (2%) | 17 (7%) |
| Other | 5 (4%) | 16 (4%) | 4 (1%) | 11 (5%) | 8 (3%) | 9 (4%) |
| CTP | ||||||
| EIP | 22 (18%) | 107 (26%) | 120 (26%) | 33 (14%) | 24 (9%) | 27 (11%) |
| Community mental health service | 98 (80%) | 281 (69%) | 325 (71%) | 183 (78%) | 217 (81%) | 184 (73%) |
| Inpatient mental health service | 2 (2%) | 21 (5%) | 14 (3%) | 17 (7%) | 26 (10%) | 27 (11%) |
| Physical healthcare service | 0 (0%) | 1 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Police/prison/probation | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (1%) | 2 (1%) | 14 (6%) |
Data exclude EIP to EIP transfers.
A&E, accident and emergency department; CTP, central triage point; EIP, early intervention in psychosis; MH, mental health.