Table 2.
Clinical characteristics of the total sample and of migrant and non-migrant patients
| Total sample (n = 7302) |
Migrant (n = 985) |
Non-migrant (n = 6298) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Diagnosis at discharge** | |||||||||
| Psychotic disorders | 2798 | 38.3 | 434 | 44.1 | 2356 | 37.4 | |||
| Mood disorders | 3057 | 41.9 | 402 | 40.8 | 2648 | 42.0 | |||
| Anxiety/somatisation disorders | 973 | 13.3 | 97 | 9.8 | 872 | 13.8 | |||
| Other | 448 | 6.1 | 52 | 5.3 | 396 | 6.3 | |||
| First admission (yes)** | 2435 | 33.3 | 374 | 38.0 | 2058 | 32.7 | |||
| Involuntary (yes)** | 1635 | 22.4 | 321 | 32.6 | 1281 | 20.3 | |||
| Severity of illness (mean, SD) | 4.31 | 1.18 | 4.45 | 1.2 | 4.28 | 1.18 | |||
All variables adjusted for hospital
*p ≤ 0.05 **p ≤ 0.001