Homesick: residential and care patterns in patients with severe mental illness

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Changes in residence, hospitalisation days, number and type of admissions over 6 years (N = 262)^a

		Residential changes^b			Number of admissions			Hospitalisation days			Type of admission^c
											Acute stay	Short stay	Long stay
	N	Mean	Range	SD	Mean	Range	SD	Mean	Range	SD	%	%	%
Patients in independent housing (stable pattern)^d	61	0.7	0–8	1.4	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0
Patients in a psychiatric hospital (stable pattern)^d	36	2.9	0–8	2.0	1.1	1–2	0.3	1934	0	499.7	8.3	30.6	100
Patients in sheltered housing (stable pattern)^d	34	0.9	0–2	0.8	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0
Patients moving back and forth between different care settings	65	5.6	1–20	4.1	2.7	1–8	2.0	504.7	1–2076	646.2	60	72.3	32.3
Patients moving from psychiatric hospitals to sheltered housing	38	1.7	1–4	1.0	1	1–2	0.2	1365.1	318–2101	516.0	5.3	2.6	100
Patients moving from psychiatric hospitals to independent housing	9	1.8	1–2	0.4	1.1	1–2	0.3	1298.2	437–1977	531.8	57.1	100	100
All patients	262	2.8	0–20	3.4	1.1	0–8	1.5	662.2	0–2191	826.3	18.7	27.5	42.4

^aChanges in care setting affecting fewer than 6% of patients are not presented in this table
^bMoves to other address, changes in the type of care setting, or moves to another department in the same care setting were considered to be changes in the residential setting
^cThe percentages are the proportion of patients with acute admissions, or patients admitted for short or long stays in psychiatric hospitals
^d‘Stable’ refers to patients who spent the entire follow-up period in one type of care setting

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