Table 5.

Non-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	56	390	4057	320–460	29	257	5898	207–308		0.02	0.00–0.04
1 year pre	65	441	4204	368–513	30	280	6301	226–334		0.03	0.01–0.05
Index year	70	521	4441	444–598	32	295	2929	269–320	*	0.07	0.05–0.09
1 year post	72	584	5063	497–672	33	326	2275	306–346	*	0.09	0.07–0.10
2 years post	72	629	5181	540–719	34	399	6025	347–451	*	0.04	0.02–0.06
Total	405	2565	21,255	2198–2932	205	1557	20,843	1377–1737	*	0.05	0.03–0.07
Outpatient treatments
2 years pre	302	454	603	443–464	231	349	445	345–353	*	0.22	0.20–0.24
1 year pre	332	493	604	482–503	246	370	482	366–374	*	0.24	0.22–0.26
Index year	310	493	717	480–505	254	386	508	382–390	*	0.19	0.17–0.21
1 year post	307	486	640	475–497	266	407	542	403–412	*	0.14	0.12–0.16
2 years post	317	495	641	484–506	279	430	600	425–435	*	0.11	0.09–0.13
Total	1876	2421	2107	2384–2457	1533	1942	1762	1927–1958	*	0.26	0.24–0.28
Inpatient treatments
2 years pre	0	637	2650	591–682	0	326	1682	312–341	*	0.16	0.14–0.18
1 year pre	0	804	4530	726–882	0	357	2042	339–374	*	0.16	0.15–0.18
Index year	0	648	3018	596–700	0	367	3076	341–394	*	0.09	0.07–0.11
1 year post	0	560	2215	521–598	0	418	2192	399–437	*	0.06	0.05–0.08
2 years post	0	579	2347	539–620	0	450	5009	406–493	*	0.03	0.01–0.05
Total	295	3227	8156	3087–3368	0	1918	7910	1849–1986	*	0.17	0.15–0.18
Sickness benefit payments
2 years pre	0	121	1054	103–140	0	47	599	42–52	*	0.10	0.09–0.12
1 year pre	0	162	1279	140–184	0	51	634	46–57	*	0.14	0.12–0.16
Index year	0	205	1522	178–231	0	58	676	52–64	*	0.16	0.14–0.18
1 year post	0	96	937	80–112	0	67	754	60–73		0.04	0.02–0.06
2 years post	0	89	915	73–104	0	78	848	71–85		0.01	− 0.01 to 0.03
Total	0	672	3262	616–729	0	301	1995	284–319	*	0.16	0.14–0.18
Losses of gross value
2 years pre	0	1794	5742	1695–1893	0	971	3489	941–1001	*	0.20	0.18–0.22
1 year pre	0	1993	6424	1882–2104	0	1043	3635	1011–1074	*	0.22	0.20–0.24
Index year	0	1858	6636	1744–1973	0	1080	3691	1048–1111	*	0.18	0.16–0.20
1 year post	0	1520	4814	1437–1603	0	1176	4008	1142–1211	*	0.08	0.06–0.10
2 years post	0	1626	5115	1538–1714	0	1329	4506	1290–1368	*	0.06	0.05–0.08
Total	0	8792	18,815	8467–9116	0	5599	12,841	5488–5709	*	0.22	0.21–0.24
Total costs
2 years pre	851	3396	8913	3243–3550	478	1951	7915	1883–2019	*	0.18	0.16–0.20
1 year pre	954	3892	10,774	3706–4078	507	2101	8265	2030–2172	*	0.20	0.18–0.22
Index year	849	3725	10,540	3543–3907	534	2186	6726	2127–2244	*	0.20	0.18–0.22
1 year post	923	3245	8450	3100–3391	568	2394	6390	2339–2450	*	0.12	0.11–0.14
2 years post	954	3419	8918	3265–3573	617	2685	12,067	2581–2790	*	0.06	0.04–0.08
Total	7894	17,677	34,196	17,087–18,267	5024	11,317	31,521	11,045–11,590	*	0.20	0.18–0.22

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)