Fig. 2: State boredom during hospital care in a broad cohort of psychiatric patients.
From: High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration
A Schematic of the study flow. For a period of several weeks, all inpatients admitted to a psychiatric care clinic were screened for state and trait boredom at the beginning of their treatment (initial MSBS, BPS). Patients who stayed longer than 5d were surveyed again in respect to their state boredom (follow-up MSBS). Therapy duration ranged from zero (release on the day of admission) to 85 days. B Left panel: initial state boredom ratings for different patient groups (diagnosis groups) in comparison to the healthy sample (***p < 0.001 in a Wilcoxon rank sum test vs. healthy controls). Right panel: same analysis for the follow-up state boredom rating. C Equivalent analysis for the trait boredom ratings. Most diagnosis groups show higher trait boredom than healthy individuals (***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 in a Wilcoxon rank sum test), but do not differ significantly between diagnosis groups. D Equivalent analysis for the duration of inpatient stay in the psychiatric hospital showing a significant difference between diagnosis groups.
