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Table 1 Patient characteristics and potential confounders

From: Lower versus higher frequency of sessions in starting outpatient mental health care and the risk of a chronic course; a naturalistic cohort study

Characteristic

Categories

N (%) or Mean (SD)

N = 2,634

Sex

Male

981 (37.2%)

Female

1653 (62.8%)

Age (in years)

 

36.1 (12.0)

Year treatment started

2011

429 (16.3%)

2012

765 (29.0%)

2013

871 (33.1%)

2014

446 (16.9%)

2015

123 (4.7%)

Diagnostic program

Anxiety

1238 (47.0%)

Depression

922 (35.0%)

Personality disorders

474 (18.0%)

Number of sessions in the first 3 months

Range from 1 to 64

9.3 (7.7)

1–3

421 (16.0%)

4–6

650 (24.7%)

7–9

324 (12.3%)

10–12

701 (26.6%)

> 12

538 (20.4%)

At least 1 pharmacotherapy contact

 

774 (29,4%)

Number of available measurements

 

4.2 (2.4)

Group treatment

No group treatment

1942 (73.7%)

Psychotherapy group

157 (6.0%)

Another kind of group

535 (20.3%)

OQ-45 total score at start

 

87.4 (23.4)

GAF score at start

 

54.9 (8.1)

Improved

 

1149 (43.6%)

Recovered

 

649 (24.6%)