The Use of the Japanese Public Financial Support Has Positive Impact on Persistence with Outpatient Treatments for Schizophrenia: Single-center Retrospective Cohort Study in Japan

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Figure 1 The process of subject selection.

Abbreviations: ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.

Table 1 The Data of User and Nonuser Groups After the Propensity Score Matching

N=278	User N=139	Nonuser N=139	P
Sex (male), n (%)	61 (43.9)	63 (45.3)	0.904
Mean age (SD)	39.88 (13.92)	38.29 (14.61)	0.356
Mean years of illness (SD)	10.18 (10.64)	9.58 (11.08)	0.643
Mean numbers of hospitalization (SD)	0.86 (1.58)	0.79 (2.22)	0.756
Day care use, n (%)	26 (19.1)	0 (0.0)	<0.001
Home nursing care use, n (%)	11 (8.1)	1 (0.7)	0.005
Mean days until the use of financial supports (SD)	188.27 (306.96)	–

Figure 2 Kaplan–Meier analytics for time to discontinuation of treatment comparisons between the two groups.

Notes: Nonuser group 1.09 (SD ±1.66) years, user group 3.02 (SD ±1.77) years, P<0.001.