Service user perspectives of community mental health services for people with complex emotional needs: a co-produced qualitative interview study

Table 1 Study Sample Characteristics

Primary sampling criteria	Category	N
Current diagnoses^a	Personality disorder	29
	Complex post-traumatic stress disorder	1
Service use	Specialist	16
	Non-specialist	10
	Unclear if specialist or non-specialist	4
Age	18–24	3
	25–34	8
	35–44	8
	45–54	4
	55–64	5
	65–74	1
	Information not available	1
Sex	Female	24
	Male	6
Sexuality	Heterosexual	12
	Bisexual / Gay / Lesbian	6
	Information not available	12
Ethnicity	Black British /Caribbean	2
	British Asian / Indian	3
	Chinese	4
	Mixed Race	2
	White British / English / Other	19
Region of England (ONS classifications)	North West	2
	North East	1
	Yorkshire / Humber	2
	West Midlands	2
	East Midlands	3
	South West	2
	London	17
	South East	1

^a Diagnoses included: anxious avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, emotionally unstable personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder. Some participants also received earlier/concurrent diagnoses such as adjustment disorder, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, eating disorder, or been mis-diagnosed with bipolar, depression or schizophrenia. Some had their type of ‘personality disorder’ diagnosis changed or replaced by complex post-traumatic stress disorder

ISSN: 1471-244X