Table 4.

Mental disorder-specific costs for the PTSD (N = 12,887) and the No-PTSD CG (N = 51,548)

	PTSD				No-PTSD CG				Analysis
	Median	Mean	SD	CImean	Median	Mean	SD	CImean	p	d	CId
Drug therapies
2 years pre	0	57	243	53–62	0	9	86	9–10	*	0.36	0.34–0.38
1 year pre	0	71	244	67–75	0	10	82	9–10	*	0.47	0.45–0.49
Index year	10	119	315	114–125	0	10	82	9–11	*	0.69	0.67–0.71
1 year post	0	105	309	100–110	0	10	79	10–11	*	0.61	0.59–0.63
2 years post	0	95	279	90–100	0	11	78	10–11	*	0.59	0.57–0.61
Total	51	447	1154	427–467	0	50	348	47–53	*	0.66	0.64–0.68
Outpatient treatments
2 years pre	97	354	751	341–367	0	91	321	89–94	*	0.59	0.57–0.61
1 year pre	205	501	790	487–515	0	101	348	98–104	*	0.85	0.83–0.87
Index year	767	1164	1115	1145–1184	0	109	367	106–112	*	1.77	1.75–1.79
1 year post	449	912	1179	892–932	0	117	377	114–120	*	1.27	1.25–1.29
2 years post	335	739	1074	720–757	0	128	408	124–131	*	1.01	0.99–1.03
Total	2682	3670	3522	3609–3730	67	546	1382	534–558	*	1.56	1.54–1.58
Inpatient treatments
2 years pre	0	655	5504	560–750	0	55	853	47–62	*	0.23	0.21–0.25
1 year pre	0	983	4353	908–1058	0	76	1537	63–89	*	0.38	0.36–0.40
Index year	0	2727	7282	2601–2853	0	78	1016	69–87	*	0.78	0.76–0.80
1 year post	0	1188	5193	1098–1278	0	109	1780	93–124	*	0.38	0.37–0.40
2 years post	0	1009	4860	925–1093	0	114	1,635	100–128	*	0.34	0.32–0.36
Total	0	6562	16,712	6274–6851	0	431	3737	399–463	*	0.75	0.73–0.77
Sickness benefit payments
2 years pre	0	144	1188	123–164	0	26	494	22–31	*	0.17	0.15–0.19
1 year pre	0	311	1774	280–341	0	30	546	25–35	*	0.30	0.28–0.32
Index year	0	960	3297	903–1017	0	34	590	29–39	*	0.59	0.57–0.61
1 year post	0	355	1850	323–387	0	45	770	38–52	*	0.29	0.27–0.31
2 years post	0	242	1706	213–272	0	54	781	48–61	*	0.18	0.16–0.20
Total	0	2011	5796	1911–2111	0	190	1773	175–206	*	0.60	0.58–0.62
Losses of gross value
2 years pre	0	1165	5988	1062–1268	0	210	2326	190–230	*	0.28	0.26–0.30
1 year pre	0	2233	8627	2084–2382	0	234	2494	213–256	*	0.45	0.43–0.47
Index year	0	5281	14,021	5039–5523	0	265	2736	242–289	*	0.75	0.73–0.77
1 year post	0	2222	8703	2071–2372	0	306	3068	279–332	*	0.40	0.38–0.42
2 years post	0	1624	7531	1494–1754	0	392	3497	361–422	*	0.27	0.25–0.29
Total	0	12,524	28,597	12,031–13,018	0	1,407	8479	1334–1480	*	0.75	0.73–0.77
Total costs
2 years pre	127	2374	9620	2208–2540	0	392	3119	365–419	*	0.39	0.37–0.41
1 year pre	317	4099	12,064	3890–4307	0	451	3577	420–481	*	0.58	0.56–0.60
Index year	2029	10,251	20,057	9905–10,597	0	496	3722	464–528	*	1.02	1.00–1.04
1 year post	760	4782	12,502	4566–4998	0	587	4447	549–625	*	0.61	0.59–0.63
2 years post	509	3709	11,105	3517–3901	0	698	4850	657–740	*	0.46	0.44–0.48
Total	7505	25,215	41,341	24,501–25,929	82	2624	11,916	2521–2727	*	1.06	1.04–1.08

Costs are expressed in euros (EUR)

CI 95% confidence intervals

^*Significant test results for Student’s t test after Bonferroni-correction (p < 0.001/36 = 0.000027)