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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of voluntary and involuntary patients admitted to 4 psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland (N = 5027)

From: Factors associated with involuntary hospitalisation for psychiatric patients in Switzerland: a retrospective study

Characteristics

VH (n = 3109; 61.8%)

IH (n = 1918, 38.2%)

p-value

Effect size

Demographics

 Age, Mean (SD)

42.5 (16.5)

48.8 (21.5)

<.0001b

d = .33c

 Sex, Male, % (n)

46.5 (1441)

49.9 (957)

.018a

V = .03c

Marital status, % (n)

 Single

50.7 (1569)

48.3 (918)

<.0001a

V = .12c

 Married/Registered partnership

22.5 (969)

23.3 (443)

 Divorced/Separated

23.5 (728)

19.7 (374)

 Widowed

3.2 (99)

8.8 (167)

Nationality

 Swiss, % (n)

65.3 (2018)

65.8 (1254)

.745a

V = .01c

District of residence, % (n)

 District 1

19.8 (591)

28.1 (517)

<.0001a

V = .10c

 District 2

22.7 (677)

17.9 (330)

 District 3

37.7 (1125)

37.3 (686)

 District 4

19.9 (594)

16.7 (308)

  1. In bold, cells with significant standardized residual at the .01 level
  2. VH Voluntary Hospitalisation, IH Involuntary Hospitalisation, SD Standard Deviation
  3. a Pearson’s Chi-square. b Independent samples t-test
  4. cSmall effect