Table 4.

Clinical characteristics predicting admission to psychiatric hospital among girls resulting from stepwise logistic regression analysis

Admission to psychiatric hospital among girls– yes (N = 177) or no (N = 2187 consultations)
Characteristic	First model			Second model			Final model
	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P
Age	1.102	0.95–1.29	0.215	0.947	0.79–1.14	0.565	1.069	0.87–1.32	0.532
DSM-IV Axis 1 disorder (ref: internalizing disorder)
Relationship problems	0.164	0.08–0.35	0.000	0.720	0.30–1.73	0.462	0.686	0.27–1.78	0.437
Externalizing disorder	1.418	0.83–2.43	0.204	2.339	1.20–4.58	0.013	2.136	0.99–4.60	0.052
Psychotic disorder/substance use disorder	4.090	2.01–8.34	0.000	4.357	1.69–11.22	0.002	4.726	1.64–13.62	0.004
Other Axis 1 disorder	0.755	0.34–1.69	0.494	1.159	0.42–3.20	0.776	0.726	0.23–2.27	0.582
Location of consultation (ref: At home)
Police station	0.252	0.12–0.53	0.252	0.737	0.31–1.77	0.496	0.678	0.26–1.74	0.418
Other	3.580	2.21–5.80	3.580	1.710	0.96–3.04	0.068	1.520	0.81–2.87	0.197
Previous service use (ref: <3 months
> 3 months	3.768	0.85–16.70	0.081	1.368	0.28–6.61	0.697	1.285	0.23–7.28	0.777
None	0.657	0.13–3.455	0.62	0.402	0.07–2.35	0.311	0.546	0.08–3.86	0.545
SPI Items (ref: No)
Suicide risk				1.878	1.39–2.54	0.000	1.619	1.15–2.27	0.005
Danger to others				1.545	1.08–2.22	0.018	1.390	0.93–2.09	0.111
Severity of symptoms				2.613	1.80–3.80	0.000	2.269	1.49–3.47	0.000
Lack of motivation for treatment				1.809	1.38–2.37	0.000	1.518	1.13–2.05	0.006
Residential instability				1.185	0.93–1.51	0.175	1.178	0.85–1.63	0.320
Family disruption							0.789	0.57–1.10	0.158
Lack of family involvement							1.557	1.06–2.30	0.025
Family wanted admission (ref: No)
Yes							15.709	6.15–40.14	0.000
Not applicable							1.650	0.62–4.41	0.318
Cox and Snell R2	0.13			0.20			0.22