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Table 5 Percentage of subjects classified into 8 outcome categories based on raw scores according to the revised JT approach of Parabiaghi et al. [22]

From: Treatment results for severe psychiatric illness: which method is best suited to denote the outcome of mental health care?

institution

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Total

Rank ordera

Rho

Mild illness

40.4

17.7

21.4

15.2

22.9

36.3

29.3

24.9

21.1

34.2

26.4

4 2 9 3 5 8 7 10 6 1

.13

Improvement to mild illness

18.5

17.7

22.3

18.3

20.5

22.8

26.9

28.3

31.2

32.7

24.6

2 4 1 5 3 6 7 8 9 10

.92**

Improvement to moderate illness

3.8

6.8

7.0

11.4

7.7

4.4

6.9

8.2

7.1

4.5

6.9

1 6 10 2 7 3 9 5 8 4

.23

Improvement within severe illness

1.5

7.8

6.5

9.7

6.8

3.8

3.4

5.9

6.4

2.0

5.3

1 10 7 6 8 9 3 5 2 4

−.29

Stability in moderate illness

12.1

12.0

8.4

9.3

10.4

11.4

9.1

7.8

5.9

8.0

9.2

  

Worsening to moderate illness

4.9

5.2

3.3

2.8

2.7

2.0

4.0

3.9

4.4

3.0

3.6

2 1 9 7 8 3 10 4 5 6

.26

Stability in severe illness

7.2

20.3

15.8

17.9

18.8

11.7

8.9

11.4

10.3

8.0

12.5

  

Worsening in/to severe illness

11.7

12.5

15.3

15.5

10.1

7.6

11.5

9.6

13.5

7.5

11.4

4 3 9 2 1 7 5 8 6 10

.52

  1. Improvement based on SEM: pre-to-posttest change ≤4
  2. Mild illness: post < 10; moderate illness: post = 10–13; severe illness post > 13
  3. aRank order is not provided for stability categories; rank order of worsening is reversed
  4. **p < .01