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Table 1 Demographic data of patients who did (n = 80) and did not fall (n = 160)

From: Staffing and patient-related factors affecting inpatient falls in a psychiatric hospital: a 5-year retrospective matched case–control study

Variable

Total

Inpatient falls

Controls

P-value

N (%)

N (%)

Age, mean (S.D.), y

240

47.37 (12.95)

47.01 (13.19)

np*

  

Min–Max = 20–70

Min–Max = 18–70

 

Gender

    

 Male

162

54 (67.5)

108 (67.5)

np†

 Female

78

26 (32.5)

52 (32.5)

 

Marital status

    

 Single, separate, divorce

168

61 (76.25)

107 (66.88)

 < 0.001†

 Couple

72

19 (23.75)

53 (33.13)

 

Education level

    

 ≤ primary education

100

32 (40.00)

68 (42.50)

0.08†

 ≥ Secondary education

140

48 (60.00)

92 (57.50)

 

Fallen in past 6 months

    

 Yes

9

9 (11.2)

0 (0.0)

N/A

 No

231

71 (88.8)

160 (100.0)

 

Diagnosis, N (%) Major diagnosis based on ICD-10

    

 1. Schizophrenia

140

42 (52.5)

98 (61.2)

N/A

 2. Bipolar disorders

25

8 (10.0)

17 (10.6)

 

 3. Depressive disorder

12

4 (5.0)

8 (5.0)

 

 4. Substance abuse

13

3 (3.8)

10 (6.2)

 

 5. Alcohol dependence

16

3 (3.8)

13 (8.1)

 

 6. Dementia or Alzheimer's disease

3

2 (2.5)

1 (0.6)

 

 7. Psychosis due to medical condition

12

8 (10.0)

4 (2.5)

 

 8. Mental retardation with psychosis

11

8 (10.0)

3 (1.9)

 

 9. Acute psychosis

3 (1.2)

2 (2.5)

1 (0.6)

 

 10. Schizophrenia with other psychiatric disorders

5 (2.1)

0 (0.0)

5 (3.1)

 
  1. *p-value calculated using paired t-test
  2. p-value calculated using McNemar's Chi-Square test
  3. np refers to non significant at p-value ≤ 0.05