Gender Differences in Service Use in a Sample of People with Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
Table 4
Number of days in hospital in patients who have been admitted at least one time by gender.
n †
n days‡
Female
Male
Female
Male
CI 95%
Schizophrenia (whole sample)
351
949
64 (1–2586)
92 (1–2586)
0.92
(0.81, 1.05)
Subtypes
Paranoid
217
579
51 (1–2586)
56 (1–2586)
0.99
(0.84, 1.16)
Disorganized
24
62
134 (24–1142)
253 (1–2586)
0.49
(0.30, 0.81)**
Catatonic
4
3
1887 (664–2586)
2586 (1960–2586)
1.04
(0.00, 486.6)
Undifferentiated
40
67
37 (6–2586)
105 (1–2586)
0.41
(0.27, 0.61)***
Residual
66
238
70.5 (6–2586)
1165 (1–2586)
0.76
(0.57, 1.02)*
Schizophreniform disorder
27
37
22 (1–103)
27 (4–141)
1.04
(0.60, 1.79)
Schizoaffective disorder
153
106
49 (1–2586)
58.5 (1–2586)
1.23
(0.95, 1.59)
Delusional disorder
139
78
30 (1–2293)
39.5 (12586)
0.65
(0.49, 0.87)**
Other psychoses nonorganic
4
6
32 (9–2586)
14 (6–21)
1.17
(0.17, 8.20)
Brief psychosis
39
48
10 (1–84)
12 (1–106)
1.05
(0.68, 1.62)
Shared psychotic disorder
3
0
19 (7–22)
na
na
na
Psychotic Disorder medical cond.
1
1
na
na
na
na
Substance-induced psychosis
0
8
na
57 (2–1615)
1.02
(0.93, 1.11)
Psychotic disorder NOS
207
262
18 (1–2586)
17 (1–2586)
0.85
(0.70, 1.04)
Total
924
1495
32.5 (1–2586)
47 (1–2586)
0.78
(0.72, 0.85)***
†Number of persons who have been admitted at least one day in hospital. ‡Median and range of days during the study period. of adding a new day of hospitalisation for patients who have been admitted at least once, regarding gender, adjusted by age and years of treatment. Men are the reference category.
*
value < 0.1.
**
value < 0.05,
***
value < 0.001.
