Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients with Stress-induced Exhaustion disorder (N = 390) participating in a 24-week Multimodal intervention
Characteristics | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|
Age | 43.69 | 9.42 |
n | % | |
Sex | ||
- Female | 344 | 88 |
- Male | 46 | 12 |
Marital status | ||
- Single or other | 131 | 33 |
- Married/living together | 238 | 61 |
- Partner (living apart) | 21 | 5 |
Education | ||
- Elementary school and/or secondary school | 92 | 23 |
- University < 3 years | 62 | 16 |
- University ≥3 years | 191 | 49 |
- Other | 45 | 12 |
Nationality | ||
- Sweden | 337 | 86 |
- European | 21 | 6 |
- Other | 32 | 8 |
Approved sick-leave compensation | ||
- 0% | 99 | 25 |
- 25% | 13 | 3 |
- 50% | 60 | 15 |
- 75% | 36 | 9 |
- 100% | 182 | 47 |
Working time (including studies) | ||
- 0% | 232 | 59 |
- 1–25% | 34 | 9 |
- 26–50% | 71 | 18 |
- 51–75% | 16 | 4 |
- 76–100% | 37 | 9 |
Occupational status | ||
- Employed/self-employed | 345 | 89 |
- Studying | 20 | 5 |
- Unemployed | 25 | 6 |
Symptom-duration before seeking treatment | ||
- 1–12 months | 149 | 38 |
- > 12 months | 241 | 62 |
Previosly on sick-leave due to Stress-induced Exhaustion disorder | 137 | 35 |
Comorbidity | ||
- Suffers from some kind of physical pain | 257 | 66 |
- Describes longstanding pain | 48 | 12 |
- Number of patients with only Stress-induced Exhaustion disorder | 217 | 56 |
- Psychiatric comorbidity | 155 | 40 |
- Somatic comorbidity | 27 | 7 |
- Number of patients with more than one comorbid diagnosis | 32 | 8 |
- Number of patients with both somatic and psychiatric comorbidity | 15 | 4 |
Medications | ||
- Psycholeptic sleep medication | 103 | 26 |
- Psychoanaleptic antidepressant medication | 158 | 41 |
- Psycholeptic sedative medication | 72 | 18 |
- Other, incl. Pain medication, paracetamol/NSAID and medications not prescribed by a physician | 254 | 65 |