Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the total national sample (n = 6948) at the baseline audit.
| Demographic and clinical characteristics | 6948 adult patients n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 4857 (70) | |
| Female | 2091 (30) | ||
| Age | Median age in years | 44 | |
| Range in years | 16–90 | ||
| Ethnicity | White/White British | 5477 (79) | |
| Asian/Asian British | 491 (7) | ||
| Black/Black British | 405 (6) | ||
| Mixed or other | 372 (5) | ||
| Not collected/stated/refused | 203 (3) | ||
| Clinical diagnosis: ICD-10 category (for at least 1% of the sample) | Schizophrenia spectrum disorder (F20-29) | 6571 (95) | |
| Disorder due to psychoactive substance use (F10-19) | 363 (5) | ||
| Borderline/emotionally unstable personality disorder (F60.3) | 312 (5) | ||
| Personality disorder other than borderline/emotionally unstable personality disorder (F60-69) | 173 (3) | ||
| Learning disability (F70-79) | 169 (2) | ||
| Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (F40-48) | 149 (2) | ||
| Affective disorder, other than bipolar disorder (F30-39) | 128 (2) | ||
| Disorder of psychological development (F80-89) | 94 (1) | ||
| Bipolar disorder (F31) | 67 (1) | ||
| Patient status | Inpatients | Detained under the Mental Health Act | 1459 (21) |
| Informal status | 160 (2) | ||
| Outpatients/community patients | Community Treatment Order | 287 (4) | |
| No Community Treatment Order | 5042 (73) | ||
| Clinical service (for at least 1% of the sample) | Community mental health team | 5152 (74) | |
| Forensic inpatient team | 823 (12) | ||
| Inpatient rehabilitation service | 415 (6) | ||
| Acute adult inpatient team | 311 (4) | ||
| Forensic community team | 111 (2) | ||
| Early intervention service | 89 (1) | ||
| PICU inpatient team | 42 (1) | ||
| Home treatment/crisis team | 38 (1) | ||
ICD, international classification of diseases; PICU, psychiatric intensive care unit.