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Table 1 Background-characteristics of psychiatric admission at Jimma University Training and Teaching Specialized Hospital, southwest Ethiopia, 2015

From: Patterns of psychiatric admissions and predictors of patient’s outcome in Jimma University Teaching and Referral Hospital: a retrospective study

Variables

Categories

Patients status

Total

Currently not improved

Currently improved

Frequency

Percent

Frequency

Percent

Frequency

Percent

Sex

Male

63

24.0

200

76.0

263

65.8

Female

36

26.3

101

73.7

137

34.3

Age group

≤24

42

23.6

136

76.4

178

44.5

25–34

36

27.5

95

72.5

131

32.8

≥35

21

23.1

70

76.9

91

22.0

Educational status

Not able to read or write

27

24.8

82

75.2

109

27.1

Grade 1–8

31

39.2

48

60.8

79

19.7

Grade 9–12

24

20.5

93

79.5

117

29.1

Grade 12+

19

19.6

78

80.4

97

24.1

Marital status

Single

68

26.3

191

73.7

259

64.8

Married

26

23.9

83

76.1

109

27.3

Widowed, divorced

5

15.6

27

84.4

32

8.0

Occupational status

Unemployed

27

22.5

93

77.5

120

29.9

Farmers

18

31.0

40

69.0

58

14.4

Governmental employee

11

20.8

42

79.2

53

13.2

Students

27

24.5

83

75.5

110

27.4

House wife and merchants

18

29.5

43

70.5

61

15.2

Religion

Muslim

71

29.1

173

70.9

244

60.7

Orthodox

17

18.5

75

 

92

22.9

Protestant and catholic

13

19.7

53

80.3

66

16.4

substance abused

Abuse substances

53

25.7

153

74.3

206

51.2

Not abuse substances

48

24.5

148

75.5

196

48.8

Previous admission history

Yes

30

33.0

61

67.0

91

22.6

No

71

22.8

240

77.2

311

77.4

Types of diagnosis

Schizophrenia

22

22.7

75

77.3

97

24.1

Depression and anxiety

27

26.7

74

73.3

101

25.1

Bipolar disorder

28

26.9

76

73.1

104

25.9

Brief psychotic disorder

24

24.0

76

76.0

100

24.9

Length of admission stay

1–20 days

23

22.5

79

77.5

102

25.4

21–30 days

26

26.5

72

73.5

98

24.4

31–44 days

26

25.2

77

74.8

103

25.6

>44 days

24

24.7

73

75.3

97

24.6