Contacts related to mental illness and substance abuse in primary health care: A cross-sectional study comparing patients' use of daytime versus out-of-hours primary care in Norway

Figures & data

Table I. Out-of-office events, gender, and age for all events and events with a first diagnosis from chapter P of ICPC-2 at the casualty clinic and the rGP surgeries.

	Out-of-office events		Men		Age
	n	%	n	%	mean	SD
Total events
Casualty clinic, n = 11,976	292	2.4	5518	46.1	33	25
rGP surgeries, n = 61,783	1131	1.8	26,303	42.6	48	24
Events with first diagnosis from chapter P
Casualty clinic, n = 265	20	7.5	171	64.5	38	18
rGP surgeries, n = 5416	184	3.4	2471	45.6	45	19

Table II. Subgroups of psychiatric diagnoses (ICPC-2 P-diagnoses) at the casualty clinic (n = 265) and the rGP surgeries (n = 5 799).¹

	Casualty clinic		rGP surgeries
Diagnostic subgroups	n	%	n	%	RR	p-value
Substance abuse	62	23.4	627	11.6	2.0	< 0.001
Depression	55	20.8	1759	32.5	0.6	< 0.001
Anxiety	42	15.8	704	13.0	1.2	0.18
Acute stress reaction	29	10.9	446	8.2	1.3	0.12
Unspecified P-diagnoses	29	10.9	735	13.6	0.8	0.22
Psychosis	21	7.9	169	3.1	2.5	< 0.001
Sleep disturbance	12	4.5	314	5.8	0.8	0.39
Suicidal behaviour	8	3.0	2	0.0	81.8	< 0.001
Memory disturbance	5	2.0	243	4.5	0.4	0.04
Others	2	0.8	417	7.7	0.1	< 0.001
Total	265	100	5416	100

Note: ¹Relative risk (RR) denotes the ratio of percentage diagnosis at the casualty clinic to rGP surgeries. Pearson's chi-squared test was used for statistical analysis of each subgroup.

Figure 1. Distribution by months of the year of events given a P-diagnosis as first diagnosis at the casualty clinic and the rGP surgeries.

Table III. Total number of individual patients, median number of events per individual, proportion of men, and number of individuals with complete information on personal identity numbers at the casualty clinic and the rGP surgeries respectively.

	Total	No. of events		Men		Complete identity numbers
	n	median	range	n	%	n	%
Unique individuals
Casualty clinic	7304	1	1–27	3370	46.1	5338	73.1
rGP surgeries	15842	2	1–172	7165	45.2	15721	99.2
Individuals with at least one psychiatric diagnosis
Casualty clinic	179	2	1–15	100	55.9	154	86.0
rGP surgeries	1808	5	1–171	810	44.8	1803	99.7