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Table 2 Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the people with psychosis across the eight ethnic groups

From: Ethnic variations in compulsory detention and hospital admission for psychosis across four UK Early Intervention Services

Demographic/clinical variable

White British

White other

Mixed Black/White

South Asian

Asian other

Black British

Black Caribbean

Black African

Test statistic1

p

 

N = 158

N =93

N =36

N =37

N =29

N =55

N =78

N =188

  

Age at referral: M (S.D.)

23.6 (4.2)

23.6 (4.6)

22.9 (4.2)

24.6 (4.5)

25.9 (5.5)

23.5 (4.5)

24.4 (4.7)

24.2 (4.6)

4.7

0.702

Gender n (%)

Male

114 (72.6)

58 (62.4)

20 (55.6)

25 (29.4)

19 (65.5)

36 (65.5)

53 (68.0)

113 (60.1)

8.3

0.307

Marital Status n (%)

Married

10 (7.9)

13 (14.9)

1 (3.2)

5 (14.7)

5 (20.8)

1 (3.1)

6 (9.5)

12 (7.8)

11.4

0.123

Ever employed or achieved GCSEs? n (%)

Yes

137 (94.5)

85 (95.5)

32 (94.1)

35 (97.2)

25 (92.6)

44 (88.0)

66 (95.7)

154 (92.2)

4.9

0.678

Living Arrangement n (%)

Living alone

18 (15.5)

16 (18.6)

5 (19.3)

5 (16.1)

3 (13.6)

10 (30.3)

16 (27.6)

37 (26.6)

19.2

0.157

Living with others

83 (71.5)

63 (73.2)

20 (76.9)

25 (80.7)

19 (86.4)

19 (57.6)

38 (65.5)

95 (68.4)

  

Roofless/Other

15 (12.9)

7 (8.1)

1 (3.9)

1 (3.2)

0 (0)

4 (12.1)

4 (6.9)

7 (5.0)

  

Diagnosis n (%)

Schizophrenia-spectrum

114 (73.6)

63 (69.2)

28 (77.8)

30 (83.3)

20 (69.0)

41 (74.6)

55 (72.4)

149 (80.5)

27.8

0.015

Affective psychosis

18 (11.6)

25 (27.5)

5 (13.9)

5 (13.9)

5 (17.2)

7 (12.7)

11 (14.5)

25 (13.5)

  

Other

23 (14.8)

3 (3.3)

3 (8.3)

1 (2.8)

4 (13.8)

7 (12.7)

10 (13.2)

11 (6.0)

  

GP in pathway? n (%)

Yes

61 (50.0)

36 (42.3)

14 (48.3)

18 (56.3)

7 (29.7)

9 (28.1)

23 (37.7)

49 (34.3)

14.4

0.045

Self-referral? n (%)

Yes

46 (40.0)

39 (46.4)

5 (17.9)

13 (41.9)

6 (26.1)

13 (41.9)

20 (34.5)

41 (31.1)

12.0

0.099

Criminal Justice Referral? n (%)

Yes

11 (8.2)

13 (14.3)

4 (13.3)

3 (11.5)

3 (6.0)

11 (15.9)

40 (25.0)

89 (15.0)

21.3

0.003

Compulsory detention? n (%)

Yes

53 (34.9)

32 (36.8)

14 (41.2)

15 (44.1)

10 (37.0)

27 (52.9)

32 (46.4)

105 (59.7)

27.2

<0.001

Admitted? n (%)

Yes

84 (53.9)

57 (63.3)

20 (57.1)

20 (55.6)

17 (58.6)

41 (77.4)

44 (60.3)

143 (78.1)

33.6

<0.001

  1. M, mean. SD standard deviation. GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education. GP, general practitioner.
  2. 1The p-values are derived from significance tests for the association between each variable and ethnic group, using ANOVA for age at referral and χ2 /Fisher’s exact for the rest of the variables.
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