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Table 2 Demographic variables, legal status and length of stay (days) to discharge or end of study. Calculated from Kaplan-Meyer survival analysis

From: Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission

 

0

1

2

3

4

Log rank Mantel-Cox

Item

n

Median

SE

n

Median

SE

n

Median

SE

n

Median

SE

n

Median

SE

X 2

p

Gender

Female

Male

  

Total

  

47

24.0

5.4

232

60.0

4.1

      

279

56.0

4.3

5.89

0.015

Primary diagnosis

 

Adjustment disorder

Bi-polar  and affective

Schizophrenia spectrum

organic

  
   

35

14.0

5.4

43

41.0

7.0

186

67.0

5.9

15

79.0

79.8

28.4

0.001

Legal status on admission

Remand

Sentenced

Unfit to stand trial

Not guilty by reason of insanity

Civil transfer

  

122

55.0

6.9

127

53.0

4.0

9

12.0

0.8

13

1100.0

0.0

8

994.0

167.1

22.8

0.001

Legal status on admission

Prisoner (remand or sentenced)

 

Unfit to stand trial

Not guilty by reason of insanity

Civil transfer

  

249

55.0

3.6

   

9

12.0

0.8

13

1100.0

0.0

8

994.0

167.1

16.8

0.001

Predicted final legal status at time of admission

Sentence

 

Unfit to stand trial

Not guilty by reason of insanity

Civil transfer

  

214

46.0

3.7

   

15

90.0

54.1

42

1100.0

455.3

8

994.0

167.1

82.1

0.001

Final legal status (actual)

Sentenced

 

Unfit to stand trial

NGRI

Civil transfer

  

230

48.0

4.2

   

11

90.0

47.3

26

1100.0

0

8

994.0

167.1

80.0

0.001

  1. Medians, standard errors and Log rank Mantel-Cox X 2, n = 279