Table 2.

Attitudes of the German public towards psychiatric units in general hospitals: 1990 v. 2011 (multinomial logit regression). Question: ‘Should the hospital where you or someone from your family will eventually be treated include a psychiatric unit?’

	Predicted percentages
	1990 (N = 1474)	2011 (N = 727)	Changea	95% CI for change
People with mental illnesses should preferably be treated in specialized hospitals	24	24	0	−4, 3
I do not care whether there is also a psychiatric unit	35	50	15	11, 19
I prefer patients with mental illnesses being treated in the same hospital as other patients	41	26	−14	−18, −11

^aDue to rounding, figures shown will not always equal the difference between predicted percentages for 1990 and 2011.