Is the level of institutionalisation found in psychiatric housing services associated with the severity of illness and the functional impairment of the patients? A patient record analysis

Table 2 Costs of psychiatric treatment and additional social support by type of housing settings

	(1) Private household without housing support (N = 50)	(2) Private household with ambulant housing support (N = 41)	(3) Foster families for adults (N = 23)	(4) Staffed apartments	(5) Intensively staffed group homes	(6) Psychiatric nursing homes (N = 81)	Test (ANOVA with Scheffé post hoc test)
	(1) Private household without housing support (N = 50)		(3) Foster families for adults (N = 23)	12 hrs. Staff (N = 45)	24 hrs. Staff (N = 10)	(6) Psychiatric nursing homes (N = 81)	Test (ANOVA with Scheffé post hoc test)
Inpatient treatment costs (€)	2,278	2,546	3,632	3,120	1,666	1,819	F = 0.25
Inpatient treatment costs (€)	2,278	2,546	3,632	3,120	1,666	1,819	p = 0.905
Outpatient treatment costs (€)	1,188	1,674	528	1,125	744	508	F = 5.47
							p = 0.001
							2 > 3,6
Psychopharmacological costs (€)	1,205	1,226	737	1,942	2,274	1,878	F = 2.70
Psychopharmacological costs (€)	1,205	1,226	737	1,942	2,274	1,878	P = 0.021
Costs of psychiatric treatment (€)	4,672	5,446	4,898	6,186	4,684	4,255	F = 0.29
Costs of psychiatric treatment (€)	4,672	5,446	4,898	6,186	4,684	4,255	p = 0.918
Housing costs (€)	-	22,400	18,485	23,390	57,450	27,500
Total costs of psychiatric care (€)	4,672	27,846	23,383	29,576	62,134	31,755	F = 93.37
							p < 0.001
							1 < 2,3,4,6 < 5
Proportion of housing costs to total costs (%)	0	80 %	79 %	79 %	92.5 %	86.6 %

Tests: ANOVA (Scheffé including Bartlett’s correction for inequal variances). F = Value on F-distribution for variances; p = level of significance

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