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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the collected study records (N = 520,731)

From: Regional years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for severe mental disorders in Guangdong Province, China: a real-world longitudinal study

Variables

N (%)

Age group (years)

 

< 7

3347 (0.6)

7–12

11,144 (2.1)

13–17

20,823 (4.0)

18–44

285,383 (54.8)

45–64

167,124 (32.1)

≥ 65

32,910 (6.3)

Sex

 

Female

229,448 (44.1)

Male

291,283 (55.9)

Residence

 

Rural

355,988 (68.4)

Urban

164,743 (31.6)

Educational level

 

Illiteracy

115,532 (22.2)

Elementary school

173,995 (33.4)

Junior high school

141,119 (27.1)

Senior high school or specialized secondary school

46,246 (8.9)

Tertiary school or university or higher

17,367 (3.3)

Others

26,472 (5.1)

Marital status

 

Unmarried

241,045 (46.3)

Married

232,169 (44.6)

Divorced

20,319 (3.9)

Widowed

15,152 (2.9)

Unspecified

12,046 (2.3)

Employment status

 

Unemployed

513,609 (98.6)

Employeda

7106 (1.4)

Unspecified

16 (0.0)

Economical level

 

Povertyb

246,819 (47.4)

Non-poverty

273,912 (52.6)

Mental disorders by ICDc groups

 

F00-F09: Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders

29,384 (5.6)

F10-F19: Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use

3485 (0.7)

F20-F29: Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders

333,366 (64.0)

F30-F39: Mood [affective] disorders

46,681 (9.0)

F40-F48: Neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders

752 (0.1)

F50-F59: Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors

112 (0.0)

F60-F69: Disorders of adult personality and behavior

125 (0.0)

F70-F79: Mental retardation (Intellectual disabilities) d

105,959 (20.3)

F80-F89: Disorders of psychological development

251 (0.0)

F90-F98, F99: Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence, and unspecified mental disorder

616 (0.1)

Family history

 

No

468,800 (90.0)

Yes

31,406 (6.0)

Unspecified

20,525 (3.9)

Screening for genetic history

 

No

512,533 (98.4)

Yes

8067 (1.5)

Unspecified

131 (0.0)

Deceasede

9298 (1.8)

Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)

1203 (12.9)

Cardiovascular diseases (I20-I25, I26-I51)

1053 (11.3)

Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J98)

599 (6.4)

Neoplasms (C00-D48)

499 (5.4)

Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K92)

245 (2.6)

Other causes (excluding psychotic disorders)

5699 (61.3)

  1. aEmployed workers include professional technology personnel; clerks and relevant personnel; manufacturing and related personnel; agriculture, forestry, husbandry and fishery production, and auxiliary personnel, etc
  2. bPoverty is defined as the residents and households living under the urban and rural subsistence allowance
  3. cICD: World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision
  4. dAccording to the work specification for management and treatment of severe mental disorders (2018 edition) [21], severe mental patients with mental retardation are referred to as patients having mental retardation with mental disorders in the Chinese context
  5. eMental patients in the study were provided with follow-up services by local community health centers, from which death information regarding the causes of death was extracted. Causes of death were also coded according to ICD-10
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