Need for education of psychiatric evaluation of offenders with mental disorders: A questionnaire survey for Japanese designated psychiatrists

Table 2 Comparison between respondents specializing in general psychiatry and emergency psychiatry in their opinions toward methods of learning administrative involuntary hospitalization consultation

Item	Contents	n	Mean	SD	Levene’s test for variance			Unpaired t test
					F value	P value	Variance equality	t value	u	P value
Attending seminars held by the government (except mandatory seminars for licensing)	General	428	6.92	2.180	0.248	0.618	Yes	-1.537	495	NS
	Emergency	69	7.35	2.078
Attending seminars held by universities, associations, hospitals, etc.	General	429	6.85	2.045	0.131	0.718	Yes	-1.576	497	NS
	Emergency	70	7.26	1.886
Taught by a supervisor, employer, or senior psychiatrist	General	429	7.01	1.912	0.298	0.585	Yes	-1.237	497	NS
	Emergency	70	7.31	1.699
Reading textbook, guidelines, academic papers	General	428	6.86	1.863	0.539	0.463	Yes	-1.866	496	NS
	Emergency	70	7.30	1.688
Visiting an AIH consultation of a senior psychiatrist	General	428	7.29	1.884	0.612	0.434	Yes	-1.307	496	NS
	Emergency	70	7.60	1.545
Asking for advice from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting the subject’s information prior to conducting the consultation	General	429	6.56	2.038	0.483	0.487	Yes	-1.437	497	NS
	Emergency	70	6.94	2.091
Consulting with the other designated psychiatrist in AIH consultation	General	429	6.01	2.277	40.508	0.034	No	-.065	86.831	NS
	Emergency	70	6.03	2.621
Asking for comments from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting them your report after AIH consultation	General	430	6.51	2.016	0.000	0.992	Yes	-2.163	498	0.031
	Emergency	70	7.07	1.958
Attending a clinical conference with your case after AIH consultation	General	430	6.63	1.961	10.242	0.266	Yes	-3.167	497	0.002
	Emergency	69	7.42	1.666
Learning through medical treatment of a case subjected to AIH	General	429	6.85	2.100	0.639	0.424	Yes	-2.380	497	0.018
	Emergency	70	7.49	1.808

AIH: Administrative involuntary hospitalization; NS: Not statistically significant; u: Degrees of freedom.