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Table 2 Health-service use and occupational functioning

From: Health service costs and clinical gains of psychotherapy for personality disorders: a randomized controlled trial of day-hospital-based step-down treatment versus outpatient treatment at a specialist practice

 

The year before the trial

First 0– 8 months of trial

Last 19– 36 months of trial

% full sample

% OPC

% SDC

% OPC

% SDC

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

Psychotherapy

               

Outpatient clinic

58

56

76

44

50

47

56

50

59

20

0

27

82

92

79

Practising specialist

25

28

16

80

90

71

56

64

47

54

75

40

36

50

36

Psychotherapeutic day hospital

6

8

8

17

30

12

98

100

94

0

0

0

0

0

0

Emergency services

               

Emergency outpatient services

41

28

56

28

10

24

21

21

18

37

25

40

34

8

50

Psychiatric inpatient services

24

24

36

17

20

12

12

14

12

6

0

7

16

17

7

Medical inpatient services

17

8

28

11

0

18

12

7

18

23

25

20

11

8

14

GP and community services

               

General practitioner

90

84

92

79

75

78

78

63

94

97

100

93

91

75

93

Community healthcare/social services

35

20

56

54

70

47

42

43

35

54

63

53

71

67

79

Social welfare coordinator

28

14

44

49

57

35

39

43

29

53

70

53

55

35

71

Other specialist services

               

Addiction clinic, outpatient

9

8

12

13

20

12

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

8

7

Psychiatric hospital, day patient

14

12

20

2

7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

7

Pharmacological treatment

61

56

68

64

70

59

64

71

71

33

37

33

50

42

54

 

Start of the trial

8-month assessment

36-month assessment

 

% full sample

% OPC

% SDC

% OPC

% SDC

 

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

All PDs

APD

BPD

Occupational functioning

               

Present employment/education

49

40

59

58

50

81

49

50

50

80

87

70

61

58

70

  1. Health-service use and occupational functioning (%) is presented for the full sample (all PDs), and for subgroups of PD patients with avoidant (APD), and not comorbid borderline (BPD), and BPD, not APD during period 0 (the year before randomisation), period 1 (the first eight months of the trial), and period 3 (the last 19–36 months of the trial).