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Table 3 Minimum 7-year follow-up comparison between short- and long-term court ordered hospitalization

From: A 10-year comparison of short versus long-term court-ordered psychiatric hospitalization: a follow-up study

 

Short hospitalization (205 less than days)

Long hospitalization (205 more than days)

p value

Very/Satisfied

Neutral

Very/Not satisfied

Don’t Know

Very/Satisfied

Neutral

Very/Not satisfied

Don’t know

Psychiatric treatment

81%

11%

7%

 

68%

17%

13%

 

0.35

Pharmacological treatment

90%

5%

5%

 

68%

10%

21%

 

0.028

Legal representation

74%

9%

16%

 

53%

31%

41%

2%

0.056

Trust in/conduct of the DPC

70%

11%

18%

 

27%

31%

41%

 

0.0002

Treatment by nurses

81%

11%

7%

 

75%

14%

11%

 

0.67

Psychological treatment

83%

11%

5%

 

68%

22%

8%

2%

0.29

General satisfaction

81%

5%

14%

 

57%

17%

25%

 

0.03

Too long

appropriate

Too short

Don’t know

Too long

appropriate

Too short

Don’t know

 

Length of hospitalization

46%

51%

0

2%

86%

14%

  

0.00006

Greatly

Helped a bit

Not at all

 

Greatly

Helped a bit

Not at all

  

Did the hospitalization helped to avoid similar situations?

86%

11%

2%

 

35%

49%

15%

 

 < 0.00001

Yes

No

Refuse to answer

 

Yes

No

Refuse to answer

  

Arrests after the discharge

23%

74%

2%

 

30%

70%

  

0.54

  1. The statistical significance of P < 0.05 is highlighted in bold