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Table 1 Demographic and clinical data for 1111 patients recruited to the Thematically Organized Psychosis (TOP) Study

From: The quality of severe mental disorder diagnoses in a national health registry as compared to research diagnoses based on structured interview

TOP-diagnosis (DSM-IV)

SCZ (n = 537)

DEL (n = 48)

SCA (n = 118)

BIP (n = 408)

test (p-value)a

% men

63.5

64.6

35.6

40.0

.0001b

Age (mean, SD)

30.3

9.4

35.4

9.8

32.3

11.2

34.5

12.1

.0001c

 

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

 

Months of NPR data pre TOP

2

0–21

10

0–40

2

0–21

0

0–17

.0935

Months of NPR post TOP

69

49–39

61

31–74

66

37–99

71

54–96

.0365d

Any mental disorder

(ICD-10 F00–99)

52

21–106

27

10–79

46

16–90

26

5–61

.0001e

Severe mental disorder

(ICD-10 F20–F31, F32.3, F33.3)

45

13–97

16

4–45

37

10–76

14

1–45

.0001f

Hospitalizations

3

1–7

1

0–3

4

1–9

2

0–5

.0001g

Outpatient visits

72

34–137

48

28–90

74

32–115

43

16–84

.0001h

Bed-days

87

2–330

11

0–91

61

4–257

10

0–79

.0001i

  1. Abbreviations: DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, SCZ schizophrenia, DEL delusional disorder, SCA schizoaffective disorder, BIP bipolar disorder (type I, type II, and bipolar disorder not otherwise specified), SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, NPR Norwegian Patient Registry, ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases 10th revision
  2. a Kruskall-Wallis equality-of-populations rank test with Dunn’s post-hoc pairwise comparison
  3. b χ 2 = 50.8 (SCZ > SCA, p < 0.0001; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; DEL > SCA, p = 0.0004; DEL > BIP, p = 0.0005)
  4. c χ 2 = 31.9 (DEL > SCZ, p = 0.0004; DEL > SCA, p = 0.02; BIP > SCZ, p < 0.0001; BIP > SCA, p = 0.03)
  5. d χ 2 = 8.5 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.009; SCA > DEL, p = 0.01; BIP > DEL, p = 0.002)
  6. e χ 2 = 66.4 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.002; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; SCA > DEL, p = 0.0411; SCA > DEL, p = 0.0001)
  7. f χ 2 = 85.2 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.0003; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; SCA > DEL, p = 0.01; SCA > BIP, p < 0.0001)
  8. g χ 2 = 35.3 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.0001; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; SCA > DEL, p = 0.0001; SCA > BIP, p < 0.0001)
  9. h χ 2 = 64.9 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.02; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; SCA > DEL, p = 0.04; SCA > BIP, p < 0.0001)
  10. i χ 2 = 71.6 (SCZ > DEL, p = 0.0001; SCZ > BIP, p < 0.0001; SCA > DEL, p = 0.001; SCA > BIP, p < 0.0001)