Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the sample used in the regression analyses (N = 6108)^a)

Waiting time (weeks)

8.1(4.9)

Patient demographics

  Male

31.5

  Age < 19

1.8

  Age 20–29

36.1

  Age 30–39

34.1

  Age 40–49

17.1

  Age 50–59

8.8

  Age > 60

2.2

Health need characteristics (patient reported outcome measures)

  CORE-OM total scores^b

17.4(6.0)

  Risk-to-others

1.1

  Risk-to-self

19.0

ICD-10 Main Category

  F00-F09: Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders

0.0

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

3.7

  F20-F29: Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders)

0.8

  F30-F39: Mood [affective] disorders

32.9

  F40-F49: Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders

44.5

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

6.2

  F60-F69: Disorders of adult personality and behavior

3.4

  F80-F89: Disorders of psychological development

0.4

  F90-F99: Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence

3.6

  R00-R99: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

4.1

 Z00-Z99: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

0.5

ICD-10 Subcategory for depression (25.8%) ^c

Mild depression (8.4%)

  F32.0 Major depressive disorder, single episode, mild

5.6

  F33.0 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, mild

2.8

  Moderate depression (16.3%)

  F32.1 Major depressive disorder, single episode, moderate

9.8

  F33.1 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate

6.5

  Severe depression (1.1%)

  F32.2 Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe without psychotic features

0.6

  F32.3 Major depressive disorder, single episode, severe with psychotic features

0.0

  F33.2 Major depressive disorder, recurrent severe without psychotic features

0.5

  F33.3 Major depressive disorder, recurrent, severe with psychotic symptoms

0.0