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Survival Analysis and Readmission in Mood Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Saxby Pridmore ,
Helen Hornsby ,
David Hay  and
Ivor Jones
Saxby Pridmore*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Helen Hornsby
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
David Hay
Affiliation:
NH & MRC Schizophrenia Research Unit, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Australia
Ivor Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
*
Prof. Saxby Pridmore, Department of Psychiatry, University of Tasmania, 43 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Abstract

Background

This is an exploratory study of readmission in mood disorder.

Method

The study is naturalistic and employs survival analysis. We identified 821 individuals with ICD–9 diagnoses, drawn from the Tasmanian Mental Health Register.

Results

No demographic variables influence the time to readmission. Two groups emerge: those with affective psychoses, and those with neurotic depression, brief depressive reaction and depressive disorders not elsewhere classified. The former group demonstrated shorter times to readmission than the latter. There was no support for a unipolar–bipolar distinction.

Conclusions

Affective psychoses have a less favourable outcome than expected. There was support for an endogenous-neurotic distinction.

Type
Short Papers
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue 6 , December 1994 , pp. 824 - 827
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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