Table 2 Characteristics of the 5-class model based on service use – profiles of physician follow-up care (LCA*) (N = 170,957, or other as specified)
Outpatient service use | Profile 1: Follow-up care by usual psychiatrist | Profile 2: Low MH follow-up care but high prior consultations for physical reasons | Profile 3: Follow-up care by GP and psychiatrists | Profile 4: High follow-up care by usual GP and prior consultations for physical reasons | Profile 5: Low MH follow-up care and prior consultations for physical reasons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group size: N (%) | 2,243 (1.3) | 85,391 (49.9) | 19,155 (11.2) | 39,574 (23.2) | 24,594 (14.4) | |
% | % | % | % | % | ||
Prompt mental health (MH) follow-up care (at least 1 physician consultation within 30 days after the detection of an incident mental disorder [MD] in 2019-20) (N = 168,837) | Usual psychiatrist | 66.04 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0.24 |
Usual general practitioner (GP) | 0.51 | 6.3 | 0 | 64.77 | 0.09 | |
Other GP and psychiatrists | 11.04 | 4.64 | 76.22 | 7.3 | 7.65 | |
Adequate MH follow-up care (at least 3 physician consultations within 90 days after the detection of an incident MD in 2019-20) (N = 169,531) | Usual psychiatrist | 80.92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.04 |
Usual GP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91.63 | 0.15 | |
Other GP and psychiatrists | 0 | 0.16 | 90.79 | 0 | 0.71 | |
Continuous MH follow-up care (at least 5 physician consultations within 365 days after the detection of an incident MD in 2019-20) (N = 169,935) | Usual psychiatrist | 95.14 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0 | 0.37 |
Usual GP** | 0 | 17.55 | 6.09 | 86.31 | 0.14 | |
Other GP and psychiatrists | 0 | 4.17 | 75.85 | 0 | 7.39 | |
Outpatient psychotherapy provided by physicians within 365 days after detection of incident MD | 47.08 | 1.56 | 17.17 | 6.03 | 2.44 | |
Seniority (≥ 20 years) of the physicians who administered the MH follow-up care (from April 1, 1997 to March 31, 2020) | 68.33 | 73.44 | 68.81 | 73.07 | 87.09 | |
Prior consultations with GP in outpatient care for physical reasons within the 2 years before MD detection | 71.07 | 99.4 | 74.66 | 99.16 | 0 | |
Prior care delivered in a family medicine group (prior consultations within 2 years for physical reasons) | 59.94 | 79.79 | 77.85 | 82.69 | 25.97 | |
Prior care delivered in a long-term facility (prior consultations within 2 years for physical reasons) | 1.68 | 1.06 | 1.53 | 1.16 | 0.88 | |
Prior high continuity of GP care (> 0.67) within 2 years for physical reasons | 23.14 | 47.35 | 13.17 | 60.84 | 0 | |