Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Table 1 Characteristics of the study population between 1 and 30 years of age as of 31 December 2018 with and without a diagnosed mental disorder (individuals 1–30 years of age, Basque Health Service registry 31 December 2018)

From: Excess healthcare costs of mental disorders in children, adolescents and young adults in the Basque population registry adjusted for socioeconomic status and sex

		Study population		Diagnosed mental disorder				p-value
		Study population		No		Yes		p-value
		N	%	N	%	N	%
Patients	Total	609,381		512,710	84.1	96,671	15.9
Age (years)	Mean	15.57		14.69		20.23		< 0.001^a
	0–12	246,275	40.4	231,079	93.8	15,196	6.2	< 0.001^b
	13–18	123,109	20.2	100,582	81.7	22,527	18.3
	18–24	114,710	18.8	87,918	76.6	26,792	23.4
	25–30	125,287	20.6	93,131	74.3	32,156	25.7
Sex	Female	296,556	48.7	251,825	84.9	44,731	15.1	< 0.001^c
Sex	Male	312,825	51.3	260,885	83.4	51,940	16.6
Socioeconomic status	Low	47,416	7.8	36,945	77.9	10,471	22.1	< 0.001^b
	Medium	312,135	51.2	254,306	81.5	57,829	18.5
	High	249,830	41.0	221,459	88.6	28,371	11.4

^aCalculated using Student’s t test for continuous variables
^bCalculated using chi-square tests
^cCalculated using Fisher’s exact test

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