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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008 Sep;16(9):736–741. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e31817b609a

TABLE 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting the Presence of Suicide Ideation (N = 125)

Suicide Ideation
Variables Mean (SD) or N (%) Univariate OR (95% CI) Multivariate OR (95% CI)
Age 60.86 (10.43) .97 (.94−1.01) .99 (.96−1.03)
Gender 58 (46.4%) .95 (.46−1.93) .97 (.43−2.18)
HRSD 26.33 (7.50) 1.05 (1.01−1.11)a 1.05 (.98−1.11)
BHS 11.33 (6.33) 1.07 (1.01−1.14)a 1.02 (.94−1.12)
RFL-SC 57.11 (18.38) .96 (.94−.99)b .99 (.96−1.03)
RFL-RF 13.42 (4.40) .92 (.84−1.00) 1.00 (.87−1.14)
RFL-FS 14.50 (4.91) .89 (.82−.96)b .90 (.81−.99)a
RFL-MO 14.10 (6.50) .91 (.86−.96)b .95 (.87−1.03)
RFL-RF X BHS
1.02 (1.00−1.04)a

Note: Gender = male; HRSD = Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression without the suicide ideation item; BHS = Beck Hopelessness Scale; RFL = Reasons for Living; SC = Survival and Coping; RF = Responsibility to Family; FS = Fear of Suicide; MO = Moral Objections. All variables were entered simultaneously into the multivariate analysis. Hosmer-Lemeshow tests (28) suggested an acceptable fit of the logistic models for current suicide ideation, X2(8, 125) = 7.95, p = .44. Wald tests were used for significance testing (df = 1).

a

p < .05.

b

p < .01.