Table 9

Mental health inpatient and day case admissions by highest Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) qualification at school leaving (rates per 100 000 person years at risk)

	Number of events	No passes at level 3 or better	SCQF level 3	SCQF level 4	SCQF level 5	SCQF level 6	SCQF level 7	Total
All admissions postschool leaving	1963**	1020	589	313	156	93	80	204
Alcohol and/or drug-related	300**	117	146	66	23	7	NA†	31
Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders	321**	102	95	52	27	19	20	33
Mood (affective) disorders	531**	146	135	90	53	30	24	55
Depressive episode	368**	107	99	63	37	19	18	38
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders	222**	97	66	39	15	13	9	23
Reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders	168**	74	55	35	11	6	NA†	17
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour	234**	114	51	43	15	13	9	24
Mental retardation	136**	283	40	6	0	0	0	14
General psychiatric examination and observation for suspected mental and behavioural disorders	242**	131	69	43	23	6	9	25

Univariate Poisson regression was used to test for trend in each of the health outcomes by attainment.
*p_trend <0.05
**p_trend <0.001
†Merged with SCQF 6 as n<10
ICD-10 codes for outcomes presented in the table are as follows: Alcohol E244, E512, F10, G312, G621, G721, I426, K292, K70, K852, K860, O354, P043, Q860, R780, T510, T511, T519, X45, X65, Y15, Y573, Y90, Y91, Z502, Z714, Z721 and/or drug-related F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F18, F19; schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders F20–F30; mood (affective) disorders F30–F39; depressive episode F32–F33; neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders F40–F48; reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders F43–F44; disorders of adult personality and behaviour F60–F69; mental retardation F70–F79; general psychiatric examination Z004 and observation for suspected mental and behavioural disorders Z032.
NA, not applicable.