Exploring the inner roots of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) in an academic psychiatric hospital: a qualitative study

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Characteristics of participants

Number	Relationship with the patients’	Gender	Age	Education
1	Wife	Female	40	HS
2	Father	Male	51	HS
3	Father	Male	56	PS
4	Father	Male	42	HS
5	Father	Male	57	BS
6	Mother	Female	63	PS
7	Mother	Female	48	BS
8	Father	Male	45	HS
9	Brother	Male	40	BS
10	Mother	Female	35	AS
11	Father	Male	57	HS
12	Mother	Female	42	HS
13	Mother	Female	58	PS
14	Mother	Female	54	PS
15	Mother	Female	52	PS
16	Sister	Female	29	BS
17	Sister	Female	39	HS
18	Brother	Male	44	MS
19	Mother	Female	57	PS
20	Grandmother	Female	71	HS
21	Mother	Female	47	BS
22	Sister	Female	40	HS
23	Father	Male	48	BS
24	Husband	Male	60	HS
25	Patient herself	Female	36	HS
26	Patient herself	Female	40	Ph.D.
27	Patient himself	Male	35	PS
28	Patient himself	Male	27	PS
29	Patient herself	Female	30	HS
30	Patient herself	Female	37	PS
31	Patient herself	Female	18	HS
32	Patient herself	Female	57	BS

PS Primary school, HS High school, AS Associate degree, BS Bachelor of sciences, MS Master of sciences, Ph.D. doctor of philosophy