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Table 3 Diagnoses at admission to hospital psychiatric wards and at discharge. The percentage is calculated on patients with an established diagnosis at admission and at discharge within each group of patients.

From: Main clinical features in patients at their first psychiatric admission to Italian acute hospital psychiatric wards. The PERSEO study

 

FPA patients

Non-FPA patients

Diagnosis

Admission N (%)

Discharge N (%)

Admission N (%)

Discharge N (%)

Affective psychosis, depression, depressive status

16 (24.2)

40 (17.4)

299 (16.6)

361 (17.1)

Schizophrenia, paranoid status, other non-organic psychosis

12 (18.2)

75 (31.5)

686 (38.2)

768 (36.3)

Substance abuse, dependence

9 (13.6)

17 (7.1)

85 (4.7)

118 (5.6)

Personality disorders

7 (10.6)

45 (18.9)

261 (14.5)

280 (13.2)

Neurotic disorders

7 (10.6)

22 (9.2)

70 (3.9)

81 (3.8)

Affective psychosis, manic episodes, excitement status

4 (6.1)

9 (3.8)

172 (9.6)

204 (9.6)

Schizoaffective psychosis

3 (4.5)

6 (2.5)

135 (7.5)

158 (7.5)

Dementia and psycho-organic syndromes

3 (4.5)

5 (2.1)

40 (2.2)

73 (3.5)

Acute stress reactions, adaptation reactions

1 (1.5)

12 (5.0)

11 (0.6)

35 (1.7)

Others

4 (6.1)

7 (2.9)

38 (2.1)

37 (1.7)

Total N. of patients with diagnosis

66

238

1797

2115