Research Article
Substance Use Disorders in Elderly Admissions to an Academic Psychiatric Inpatient Service over a 10-Year Period
Table 1
Comparison of elderly psychiatric inpatients with and without a SUD.
| | | SUD () | NO SUD () | Significance |
| | Age (years) | | | (-test) |
| | Length of stay (days) | | | (-test) |
| | Gender: | (%) | (%) | | | Men | 110 (52.4%) | 592 (37.5%) | (Pearson Chi-Square, 2-sided) | | Women | 100 (47.6%) | 982 (62.2%) |
| | Marital status: | (%) | (%) | | | Married | 78 (37.1%) | 593 (37.5%) | (Pearson Chi-Square, 2-sided) | | Divorced | 41 (19.5%) | 188 (11.9%) | | Single | 34 (16.2%) | 243 (15.4%) | | Widowed | 50 (23.8%) | 502 (31.8%) | | Separated | 7 (3.3%) | 52 (3.2%) |
| | Multiple psychiatric admissions | (%) | (%) | | | Yes | 80 (38.1%) | 788 (49.9%) | (Fisher exact test) | | No | 130 (61.9%) | 790 (50.0%) |
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