Table 3

Patient characteristics


1.11.2004–31.10.2005
1.11.2004–31.10.2005
1.11.2005–31.10.2006
1.11.2005–31.10.2006

Adjustment disorders (ICD-10 F4)
Personality disorders (ICD-10 F6)
Adjustment disorders (ICD-10 F4)
Personality disorders (ICD-10 F6)

N
160
127
154
147
% female
55.0%
64.6%
60.4%
76.9%*
Age (mean, years)
37.4
34.4
36.8
33.0
Length of stay (mean, days)
16.3
30.0
23.6*
31.6
Primary diagnosis
Anxiety disorder (F 40.x, F 41.x) 14.4%
Borderline (F 60.30, F 60.31) 70.0%
Anxiety disorder (F 40.x, F 41.x) 14.3%
Borderline (F 60.30, F 60.31) 70.7%

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (F 42.x) 6.3%
Antisocial, histrionic, narcisstic (F 60.2, 60.4, 60.8) 12.6%
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (F 42.x) 5.8%
Antisocial, histrionic, narcisstic (F 60.2, 60.4, 60.8) 4.1%

Stress and adjustment disorders (F 43.x) 74.4%
Combined (F 61) 11.8%
Stress and adjustment disorders (F 43.x) 72.7%
Combined (F 61) 19.7%


Other 5.6%

Other 5.5%

Dissociative disorder (F 44.x) 1.3%

Dissociative disorder (F 44.x) 1.5%


Somatoform disorder (F 45.x) 3.1%

Somatoform disorder (F 45.x) 2.6%


Other 2.5%

Other 3.1%

Secondary diagnosis
65%
68%
60%
65%
Secondary diagnosis substance abuse
24.4%
32.3%
14.3%*
39.4%

* p < .05 sign. difference in comparison with the same diagnostic group in the other year

Steinert et al. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2008 4:27   doi:10.1186/1745-0179-4-27