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Table 3 Attendances in police custody and subsequent involuntary admissions across diagnostic categories

From: Psychiatric presentations and admissions during the first wave of Covid-19 compared to 2019 in a psychiatric emergency department in Berlin, Germany: a retrospective chart review

 

2019 pre-Covid-19 period

2020 1st wave of Covid

difference between abs. Numbers

p-value

cases (% of cases with respective feature)

cases (% of cases with respective feature))

%

Organic mental disorders

 Attendance in police custody

11 (22.9)

5 (12.5)

−54.5

p = 0.207

 involuntary admission

9 (18.8)

4 (10.0)

−55.6

p = 0.249

Substance use disorders

 Attendance in police custody

95 (22.8)

95 (23.5)

±0.0

p = 0.833

 involuntary admission

44 (10.6)

40 (9.9)

−9.1

p = 0.741

Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders

 Attendance in police custody

64 (22.2)

80 (28.4)

+ 25.0

p = 0.091

 involuntary admission

46 (16.0)

32 (11.3)

−30.4

p = 0.108

Paranoid schizophrenia

 Attendance in police custody

22 (19.1)

40 (29.2)

+ 81.8

p = 0.065

 involuntary admission

19 (16.5)

19 (13.9)

±0.0

p = 0.558

Bipolar and manic disorders

 Attendance in police custody

10 (20.8)

16 (27.6)

+ 60.0

p = 0.421

 involuntary admission

7 (14.6)

12 (20.7)

+ 71.4

p = 0.415

Depressive disorders

 Attendance in police custody

5 (3.5)

5 (5.0)

±0.0

p = 0.573

 involuntary admission

2 (1.4)

1 (1.0)

−50.0

p = 1.000

Neurotic-, somatoform- and stress-related disorders

 Attendance in police custody

11 (7.1)

18 (12.6)

+ 63.6

p = 0.106

 involuntary admission

3 (1.9)

0 (0.0)

p = 0.249

Personality disorders

 Attendance in police custody

22 (16.7)

23 (29.1)

+ 4.5

p = 0.033

 involuntary admission

10 (7.6)

7 (8.9)

−30.0

p = 0.740

  1. “Difference” is the relative change of absolute number in 2020 compared to 2019 in percentage values. P-values are resulting from chi2-tests, exept for “involuntary admission” of cases with depressive disorders and cases with neurotic-, somatoform- and stress-related disorders, which were tested using the Fisher-exact-test