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Chapter 486with MID. 5 Indirect patient care consisted of coordination of care, time consumed by no-shows, interprofessional consultations in and outside the MH service setting, and legal proceedings activities. Indirect patient care was included as an outcome of this study on the assumption from clinical experience [KP, MM, JW] that indirect patient care accounts for a larger proportion of the total care provided to patients with MID than to other MH patients. In addition, interprofessional collaboration, reflected in interprofessional consultations, is considered a way to improve MH outcomes in patients with ID. 15, 16 Finally, crisis interventions and hospital admissions were included, as they have been used in previous research to express (mental) health differences between groups. 3Statistical analysisVariables for all groups were calculated as frequencies, in percentages, or means with standard deviation. The mean duration of MH trajectories was calculated as the mean of all trajectories per study group. Comparisons were made between the MID group and the no-ID group, and between the MID subgroup without ID registration in the MH service database and the no-ID group. Differences between these groups were tested for statistical significance by chi-square tests for categorical variables and T-tests. The relation between MID and outcomes in MH services was analysed by logistic regression modelling, controlling for age and sex, and presented by odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). P-values <.05 were considered statistically significant. Analyses were conducted in SPSS, version 25.0. Katrien Pouls sHL.indd 86 24-06-2024 16:26