TABLE 1.
Characteristics of 84 consumers accessing Neami Albany service (total 135 admission episodes) between October 2018–2020.
| Characteristics | Frequency | % | ||
| SD13.8. | ||||
| Demographic factors | Age (in years)† | Mean 40.8 | Range 17-64 | |
| Age group | <=40 | 43 | 51.2% | |
| >40 | 41 | 48.8% | ||
| Gender | Male | 26 | 31.0% | |
| Female | 58 | 69.0% | ||
| Indigenous status | Yes | 7 | 8.3% | |
| No | 75 | 89.3% | ||
| Missing | 2 | 2.4% | ||
| Distance from residence to service | <=50 kms | 53 | 63.1% | |
| >50 kms | 31 | 36.9% | ||
| Country of birth | Australia | 73 | 86.9% | |
| Overseas* | 9 | 10.7% | ||
| Missing | 2 | 2.4% | ||
| Systemic factor | Referral type† | Step Up | 68 | 50.4% |
| Step Down | 63 | 46.7% | ||
| Missing | 4 | 3.0% | ||
| Clinical factors | Primary diagnosis | Schizophrenia spectrum disorders | 13 | 15.5% |
| Bipolar disorder | 8 | 9.5% | ||
| Personality disorder | 16 | 19.0% | ||
| Depression | 22 | 26.2% | ||
| Anxiety | 14 | 16.7% | ||
| Other psychiatric disorder | 7 | 8.3% | ||
| Not known/Missing | 4 | 4.8% | ||
| Unique patients | Single admission | 54 | 64.3% | |
| Repeat admissions (up to 5) | 30 | 35.7% | ||
| Length of stay (in days)†‡ | Mean 22.5 | SD10.0 | ||
| Range 1-44 | ||||
Information is presented for unique consumers and reflects the most recent episode (according to how Neami records and stores data). This is with the exception for length of stay, which is reported for episodes, not consumers.
†Indicates continuous characteristics, hence mean, standard deviation (SD), and range are reported (instead of frequency and % being reported for categorical characteristics). The mean is the average value of a data distribution; whereas the standard deviation and the range show the spread/variation in the data.
*Included: New Zealand, United Kingdom, Scotland, and Papua New Guinea.
‡Statistics reported for episodes, not unique consumers.