Comparison of exhaustion symptoms in patients with stress-related and other psychiatric and somatic diagnoses

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Mean KEDS sum scores in patients with different diagnoses (main groups and subgroups)

Diagnosis-based patient group	ICD-10 codes	All		Men		Women
Diagnosis-based patient group	ICD-10 codes	N	Mean (SD)	N	Mean (SD)	N	Mean (SD)
Main group: stress-related diagnoses	F43	217	29.3 (8.0)^e	50	28.8 (8.7)	167	29.4 (7.8)
Subgroups:
- Adjustment disorder	F43.2	103	29.9 (7.2)^f	20	32.1 (7.7)	83	29.4 (7.0)
- Reaction to severe stress, unspecified	F43.9	89	27.9 (8.2)^f	19	24.9 (7.7)^k	70	28.6 (8.3)^k
- Other stress-related disorders	Other F43.x^a	25	31.8 (9.5)^f	11	29.6 (10.0)	14	32.6 (8.9)
Main group: psychiatric diagnoses other than stress	F (except F43) + Z56	143	25.9 (9.5)^e	34	24.3 (8.9)	109	26.3 (9.6)
Subgroups:
- Major depressive disorder	F32 + F33	34	31.4 (8.1)^f	10	28.4 (4.7)^l	24	32.6 (8.9)^l
- Problems related to employment and unemployment	Z56	99	23.5 (9.0)^g,i	20	21.2 (10.0)	79	24.1 (8.7)
- Other psychiatric disorders	Other codes than those above^b	10	30.1 (10.5)^h	4	29.8 (4.9)	6	30.3 (13.6)
Main group: somatic diagnoses	All somatic codes^c	338	17.6 (10.8)^e	153	15.6 (9.7)^l	185	19.2 (11.5)^l
Subgroups:
- Examination and observations for other reasons	Z04	41	18.7 (12.6)^g	19	13.9 (8.4)^k	22	22.9 (14.2)^k
- Shoulder lesions	M75	34	17.5 (10.2)^g,j	16	17.9 (11.9)	18	17.1 (8.7)
- Dorsalgia	M54	24	18.2 (9.4)^g	12	18.2 (9.7)	12	18.2 (9.5)
- Other somatic disorders	Other codes than those above^d	239	17.3 (10.7)^g,i,j	106	15.3 (9.5)	133	18.9 (11.1)

Notes: ^aF43 codes other than F43.2 and F43.9. ^bF-codes other than F43, F32, and F33. ^cOther codes than F-codes and Z56. ^dAll codes except F, Z56, Z04, M75, and M54. ^e-jStatistically significant differences in mean KEDS sum score in pairwise comparison of patient groups in mixed models adjusted for sex and age as follows: ^eThe main groups of ‘stress-related diagnoses’, ‘psychiatric diagnoses other than stress’, and ‘somatic diagnoses’ differ from each other (all P < 0.001). ^fDifferent from Z56, Z04, M75, M54, and ‘other somatic disorders’ (all P < 0.01). ^gDifferent from F43.2, F43.9, ‘other stress-related disorder’, and F32 + F33 (P < 0.01). ^hDifferent from M75 and ‘other somatic disorders’ (both P < 0.05). ⁱSignificant difference between Z56 and ‘other somatic disorders’. ^jDifferent from ‘other psychiatric diagnoses’. Bonferroni-correction was used in all post-hoc tests. ^kP < 0.05 for the difference between men and women; ^lP < 0.01 for the difference between men and women

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