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Table 3 Diagnoses at admission to SPDC and at discharge. The percentage is calculated on patients with an established diagnosis at admission and at discharge.

From: Clinical features and therapeutic management of patients admitted to Italian acute hospital psychiatric units: the PERSEO (psychiatric emergency study and epidemiology) survey

Diagnosis

Admission n (%)

Discharge n (%)

  

Overall

Females

Males

Schizophrenia, paranoid status, other non-organic psychosis

698 (36.2)

843 (35.0)

342 (28.9)*

501 (41.0)*

Affective psychosis, depression, depressive status

315 (16.3)

401 (16.7)

246 (20.8)*

155 (12.7)*

Personality disorders

268 (13.9)

325 (13.5)

174 (14.7)

151 (12.4)

Affective psychosis, manic episodes, excitement status

176 (9.1)

213 (8.9)

121 (10.2)†

92 (7.5)†

Schizoaffective psychosis

138 (7.2)

164 (6.8)

93 (7.9)†

71 (5.8)†

Substance abuse, dependence

94 (4.9)

135 (5.6)

32 (2.7)*

103 (8.4)*

Neurotic disorders

77 (4.0)

103 (4.3)

69 (5.8)*

34 (2.8)*

Dementia and psycho-organic syndromes

43 (2.2)

78 (3.2)

36 (3.0)

42 (3.4)

Mental retardation, infantile psychoses

29 (1.5)

28 (1.2)

9 (0.8)

19 (1.6)

Acute stress reactions, adaptation reactions

12 (0.6)

47 (2.0)

28 (2.4)

19 (1.6)

Others/NA

80 (4.1)

70 (2.9)

34 (2.9)

36 (2.9)

Total no of patients with diagnosis (% of total PERSEO population)

1930 (78.1)

2407 (97.4)

1184 (97.5)

1223 (97.2)

  1. *Males versus females, p < 0.001; †males versus females, p < 0.05.