Table 1.

Clinician Perceived Patient Characteristics and Clinicians’ Subjective Aspects of Psychiatric Encounters in ED by Patient’s Geographic Origin (N=397)

	Spaniards (n=67)		Latin Americans (n=180)		North Africans (n=52)		Asians (n=23)		Eastern Europeans (n=34)		Western Europeans (n=41)
Clinician Perceived Patient Characteristics
Patient’s Gender	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Male	33	50.8	55	34.2	32	65.3	11	50	18	56.3	21	52.5	0.004
Female	32	49.2	106	65.8	17	34.7	11	50	14	43.8	19	47.5
Understand Spanish
None/little	0	0	3	1.7	9	18	12	52.2	14	41.2	18	43.9	0.000
Quite/a lot	67	100	177	98.3	41	82	11	47.8	20	58.8	23	56.1
Clinicians’ Subjective Aspects of Psychiatric Encounters
Clinician Perceived Culture Influence
None/little	66	98.5	131	73.2	28	53.8	11	47.8	22	64.7	36	87.8	0.000
Quite/a lot	1	1.5	48	26.8	24	46.2	12	52.2	12	35.3	5	12.2
Clinician Comfort with Culturally Diverse Patients
None/little	2	3	18	10.1	11	21.2	11	47.8	14	41.2	11	26.8	0.000
Quite/a lot	65	97	161	89.9	41	78.8	12	52.2	20	58.8	30	73.2

Note. p-value for the difference between patient’s geographic origin for each clinician perceived patient characteristic and clinicians’ subjective aspects of psychiatric encounters in ED is reported.