Clinical Study

Affective Spectrum Disorders in an Urban Swedish Adult Psychiatric Unit: A Descriptive Study

Table 2

Sociodemographic description of the included patients . All numbers are percentages.

       Gender      Children
Male/female37/63Yes/no65/35

AgeEducation

18–2928Unfinished primary school5
30–3931Primary school (=9 years)19
40–4918Secondary or vocational school47
50–5911University26
≥6012No information3

AccommodationsIncome

Apartment51Salary/student loan38
Villa/house26Sickness benefit32
Tenant10Pension12
No information13Social/unemployment benefit9
Other5
No information4

Marital statusDecent

Married/stable living arrangements45Born in Sweden, no foreign decent73
Single28Born in Sweden, foreign decent8
Divorced/living apart from partner20Foreign-born, Europe9
Widow/widower3Foreign-born, the orient9
No information4Foreign-born, other1