Table 2.

Medical history of the studied mentally ill patients, Assiut University Hospital, Egypt, 2017

Variables	No. (n = 425)	%
Mental illness diagnosis
Bipolar disorder	204	48.0
Schizophrenia and other related psychotic disorders	182	42.8
Depression	29	6.8
Child psychiatric disorders	10	2.4
Mental illness duration (years)
Mean ± SE (Range)	7.93 ± 0.35# (1–40)
Aggressive behavior (injuring/threatening to injure anyone)
Yes	137	32.2
No	288	67.8
Suicidal history
Yes	66	15.5
No	359	84.5
Frequency of hospital admission in the past 6 months
0	242	56.9
1	162	38.1
2	20	4.7
3	1	0.2
Mean ± SD	0.48±0.59
First sought care before hospital attendance
Traditional healer only	304	71.5
Psychiatrist from the start	74	17.4
Both traditional and non-psychiatric physician	37	8.7
Non-psychiatric physician only	10	2.4

^#SD = 7.323