Table 1.

Data sources/measurements

Variable of interest	Items (sources of data)	Measure	Statistical assessment
Mental health service usage characteristics	(2) User's type of service at the first contact	Category	Descriptive
	(4) Duration of stay at the current centre	Number of months at the current centre
	(5) Usual frequency of visits to the centre.	Frequenting the MHC
Hospitalization Rate	(1) Ln[year of study (2016) – user's year of the first contact with the mental health system]	Offset variable for modelling users' number of hospitalizations.	Negative binomial regression modelling;
	(3) How many times have you been hospitalized for mental health reasons?	Count variable of the number of hospitalizations.
Users' perceived development of hospitalizations	(6) Since I began frequenting the centre, …	(1) …I have never been hospitalized;	Mantel–Haenszel linear‐by‐linear association; 1‐sided P;
		(2) …I have been hospitalized less than in prior periods;
		(3) …there have been no significant changes in the number of hospitalizations;
		(4) …I have been hospitalized more than in prior periods;
Reduction in medication	(7) Since I began frequenting the centre, my psychiatric medication use…	(1) …was suspended;	Mantel–Haenszel linear‐by‐linear association; 1‐sided P;
		(2) …was reduced;
		(3) …has not changed;
		(4) …was increased;