Research Article
Urgent and Nonurgent Presentations to a Psychiatric Emergency Service in Nigeria: Pattern and Correlates
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants (
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| Variable | | % |
| Age in years (mean ± SD) | 36.8 (±10.9) | | Sex | | | Male | 286 | 40.86 | Female | 414 | 59.14 | Marital status | | | Married | 242 | 34.57 | Not married | 458 | 65.43 | Employment status | | | Employed | 278 | 39.71 | Unemployed | 422 | 60.29 | Mode of presentation | | | Alone | 103 | 14.71 | With relative, no restraint | 479 | 68.43 | With relative, in restraint | 74 | 10.57 | By police/ambulance | 44 | 6.29 |
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