Mobile phone text message reminders of antipsychotic medication: is it time and who should receive them? A cross-sectional trust-wide survey of psychiatric inpatients

Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

		Participants (n = 85)
Variables		N	%¹
Gender
	Female	38	45
	Male	47	55
Age (Years)
	18-35	48	57
	36-50	30	35
	51-67	7	8
Ethnicity
	White	58	68
	Black	10	12
	Other	15	18
Employment status
	Working or studying	15	18
	Not working	65	76
Marital status
	Has partner	25	29
	No partner	60	71
Diagnosis (disorder)
	Nonaffective	32	38
	Affective	16	18
	Substance induced/organic	23	27
	Other	14	17
Antipsychotics medications ²
	Risperidone	18	21
	Quetiapine	29	34
	Clozapine	8	9
	Olanzapine	24	28
	Other	6	8

¹The cumulative percentages for ‘Ethnicity’ and ‘Employment Status’ are 98% and 94%, respectively, due to missing values.
²Daily dosage of prescribed antipsychotic (% of patients): 0.5-30 mg (47%), 50-250 mg (8%), 300-800 mg (30%).

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