Recovery from Severe Mental Illness: a 5-Year Follow-Up Study After the 1995 Swedish Mental Health Care Reform

Variable%Women51Cohabiting with a domestic partner11Living with children below 18 years of age5Living in their own apartment66Living in group homes17Living in institutions17Working in an ordinary or sheltered work12Ongoing contact with psychiatric care90Given the diagnosis of schizophrenia or similar (F 20–29)50Mood disorders (F 30–39)17Neurotic, stress related or somatoform disoders (F 40–48)14Disorders of personality and behaviour (F 60–69)13Disorders due to psychoactive substance abuse (F 10–19)2Given other psychiatric diagnoses5

Table 2

. A logistic regression, odds ratios in a bi-variate analysis and a multi-variate analysis. Recovered and still severely mentally ill, based on the interviews carried out in 1995–96

Bi-variate analysisMulti-variate analysis (Forward Wald)VariableOR95% CIOR95% CIGroup of diagnosis0.250.10–0.600.240.10–0.57Gender0.820.37–1.80Abuse problems0.810.22–3.02Cohabiting1.340.41–4.40GAF1.000.97–1.04Met needs0.880.74–1.06Unmet needs0.970.79–1.17

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