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Table 2 Characteristics of psychiatrists and patients. Characteristics of psychiatrists and patients, including the main diagnoses of the patients’ mental disorder(s) with impact on work capacity. In RELY 1 (RELY 2), six (seven) patients had been assigned two main diagnoses

From: The reproducibility of psychiatric evaluations of work disability: two reliability and agreement studies

 

RELY 1

RELY 2

Psychiatrists, RELY 1: n=19a; RELY 2: n=35b

 Age

  31–40/ 41–50/ 51–60/ >  60 years/ missing

5/ 42/ 21/ 32/ 0%c

3/ 40/ 31/ 20/ 6%

 Gender

  male

79%

83%

 Experience

  Years since board certification as psychiatrist, mean (SD)

15.6 (9.7)

15.8 (9.0)

  Number of years performing disability evaluations, mean (SD)

13.8 (9.2)

12.4 (7.5)

 Number of evaluations in the previous year,

  0–4/ 5–20/ 21–50/ > 50/ missing

0/ 10 / 32 / 58/ 0%

6/ 17/ 31/ 40/ 6%

  Time span from training to rating in days, mean (range)

404 days (115–578)

41 days (5–88)

Patients, RELY 1: n=30; RELY 2: n=40

 Age, years: mean (SD)

47.2 (8.6)

48.6 (10.1)

 Gender

  male

57%

53%

 Marital status

  Unmarried/ married/ divorced/ missing

20/ 40/ 40/ 0%

20/ 28/ 45/ 8%

 Nationality

  Swiss/ others/ missing

63/ 23/ 14%

70/ 28/ 2%

 Country of birth

  Switzerland/ others/ missing

67/ 27/ 6%

75/ 23/ 2%

 Severity of disorderd

  mean (SD)

5.3 (2.1)

4.9 (1.8)

 Typicality of study patient compared to other patients seen by the expert

  frequent / semifrequent / rare

36/ 44/ 20%

27/ 56/ 17%

Main diagnoses (ICD 10 classification)

Number of diagnoses RELY 1: n=36; RELY 2: n=47

 Mood disorders (F3)

26%

40%

 Neurotic, stress-related, somatoform disorders (F4)

19%

21%

  thereof somatoform disorders (F45)

6%

15%

 Organic (F0)

11%

9%

 Disorders of adult personality and behaviour (F6)

11%

6%

 Psychoactive substance use (F1)

3%

0%

 Mental retardation (F7)

0%

2%

 Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset in childhood (F9)

0%

2%

 Patients without main diagnosis

19%

19%

  1. a) Twelve out of 19 psychiatrists performed interviews, all performed ratings. b) Eleven out of 35 psychiatrists performed interviews, all performed ratings. c) Percentages are rounded to nearest whole numbers, d) Scale from 0 to 10, higher score indicates more severe disorder