Human trafficking and severe mental illness: an economic analysis of survivors’ use of psychiatric services

Table 4 Univariate associations with total cost per patient

Variable	N	Mean cost (£)	P-value
Type of exploitation
Sexual	58	21,324	0.435
Other^a	61	32,970
Gender
Male	28	49,899	0.091
Female	91	20,338
Disorder
Psychotic disorders^b	20	98,452	0.000
Other/psychological distress^c	99	12,918
Age when admitted (split at median)
≤ 22	60	32,058	0.612
> 22	59	22,447
Violence pre-trafficking
Yes	57	41,840	0.060
No	62	13,920
Violence post-trafficking
Yes	69	23,060	0.505
No	50	33,135

^aFinancial, labour, domestic and unknown exploitation
^bBipolar and schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses
^c Childhood emotional, depression, emotionally unstable PD, enduring personality change following catastrophic experience, mixed conduct disorder, OCD, PTSD, severe stress and adjustment, substance misuse, unspecified mental retardation, unspecified disorder of psychological development, psychological distress, and not assessed

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