Table 3 Characteristics of patients in each crisis event subgroup prior to propensity score matching
From: Costs of treating patients with schizophrenia who have illness-related crisis events
Crisis events | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | Hospitalized in past 6 months | Arrested in past 6 months | Violent in past 4 weeks | Concurrent substance abuse | Attempted suicide in past 4 weeks | Non-crisis event subgroup |
Sample sizes | ||||||
Yes | 240 | 56 | 62 | 413 | 18 | 938 |
No | 1317 | 1469 | 1463 | 1144 | 1507 | 619 |
Age, years | ||||||
Yes | 39 (10.3) | 38.9 (9.7) | 40.7 (10.0) | 39.9 (9.8) | 33.8 (11.0) | 43.9 (11.4) |
No | 43 (11.2) | 42.6 (11.1) | 42.5 (11.1) | 43.2 (11.4) | 42.6 (11.0) | 40 (10.2) |
Age of Illness onset, yrs | ||||||
Yes | 19.8 (8.6) | 19.4 (6.3) | 18.9 (7.8) | 19.4 (8.3) | 16.4 (5.8) | 21.4 (9.1) |
No | 20.8 (8.9) | 20.8 (9.0) | 20.8 (9.0) | 21.1 (9.0) | 20.8 (9.0) | 19.6 (8.5) |
MADRS total score | ||||||
Yes | 15.6 (11.0) | 14.0 (10.5) | 19.9 (12.0) | 13.5 (10.8) | 30.9 (12.5) | 13.1 (9.8) |
No | 13.2 (10.0) | 13.5 (10.1) | 13.3 (10.0) | 13.6 (10.0) | 13.4 (10.0) | 14.3 (10.8) |
PANSS total score | ||||||
Yes | 73.9 (18.4) | 71.1 (15.7) | 72.0 (18.8) | 69.6 (19.1) | 86.7 (16.9) | 68.0 (17.8) |
No | 68.2 (18.2) | 69.1 (18.5) | 69.0 (18.4) | 68.9 (18.0) | 69.0 (18.3) | 70.8 (19.0) |
Medication days in 6 mos. prior to enrollment | ||||||
Atypicals | ||||||
Yes | 96.2 (82.9) | 61.7 (81.1) | 71.2 (84.4) | 91.0 (87.0) | 89.3 (82.2) | 98.6 (87.5) |
No | 96.6 (87.7) | 97.7 (86.9) | 97.4 (86.9) | 98.5 (86.9) | 96.5 (87.0) | 93.4 (86.2) |
Typicals | ||||||
Yes | 72.2 (82.0) | 95.9 (82.9) | 98.4 (88.8) | 98.1 (86.5) | 60.9 (80.8) | 90.3 (87.6) |
No | 93. 4 (87.4) | 89.8 (87.1) | 89.7 (86.9) | 87.2 (86.9) | 90.4 (87.0) | 89.7 (85.8) |
Antidepressant | ||||||
Yes | 54.2 (78.9) | 55.1 (81.0) | 71.2 (84.4) | 53.1 (80.0) | 74.7 (86.6) | 61.3 (82.6) |
No | 60(82.3) | 59.6 (82.0) | 58.9 (81.8) | 61.3 (82.4) | 59.2 (81.9) | 55.9 (80.6) |
Mood stabilizer | ||||||
Yes | 64.1 (82.0) | 41.3 (74.3) | 46.4 (77.1) | 38.7 (71.7) | 61.0 (84.1) | 45.5 (77.3) |
No | 43.5 (76.0) | 47.0 (77.5) | 46.8 (77.4) | 49.6 (79.1) | 46.6 (77.3) | 48.6 (77.4) |
Other psychotropic | ||||||
Yes | 71.0 (80.5) | 63.8 (79.9) | 99.1 (82.5) | 79.3 (85.4) | 36.1 (63.3) | 74.1 (85.5) |
No | 76.4 (85.7) | 75.7 (85.0) | 74.3 (84.8) | 74.2 (84.8) | 75.7 (85.0) | 77.7 (84.2) |
Male, N (%) | ||||||
Yes | 142 (59.2) | 45 (80.4) | 38 (61.3) | 304 (73.6) | 7 (38.9) | 527 (56.2) |
No | 806 (61.2) | 882 (60.0) | 889 (60.8) | 644 (56.3) | 920 (61.0) | 421 (68.0) |
Single, N (%) | ||||||
Yes | 149 (62.3) | 46 (82.0) | 26 (41.9) | 262 (63.8) | 11 (61.1) | 549 (58.8) |
No | 789 (60.2) | 871 (59.6) | 891 (61.2) | 676 (59.4) | 906 (60.4) | 389 (63.2) |
Diagnosis, N (%) | ||||||
Schizophrenia | ||||||
Yes | 119 (49.6) | 33 (58.9) | 32 (51.6) | 257 (62.2) | 9 (50.0) | 620 (66.1) |
No | 861 (65.4) | 926 (63.0) | 927 (63.4) | 723 (63.2) | 950 (63.0) | 360 (58.2) |
Schizoaffective | ||||||
Yes | 103 (42.9) | 17 (30.4) | 28 (45.2) | 125 (30.3) | 9 (50.0) | 282 (30.1) |
No | 393 (29.8) | 469 (31.9) | 458 (31.3) | 371 (32.4) | 477 (31.7) | 214 (34.6) |
Other psychotic | ||||||
Yes | 19 (7.9) | 6 (10.7) | 2 (3.2) | 31 (7.5) | 0 | 38 (4.1) |
No | 65 (4.9) | 77 (5.2) | 81 (5.5) | 53 (4.6) | 83 (5.5) | 46 (7.4) |