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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2011 Apr 19;21(6):653–668. doi: 10.1002/hec.1737

Table 4. Predictors of medication class choice.

Average partial effects from multinomial logit estimation (standard errors in parentheses)

Model 1 Model 2
AD AP MS AD MS AP MS MS only AD AP MS AD MS AP MS MS only
Age −0.001 0.000 0.000 −0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000 −0.001
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Male sex −0.033 −0.018 0.033 0.045 c −0.030 −0.010 0.033 0.045 c
(0.019) (0.022) (0.018) (0.020) (0.019) (0.022) (0.018) (0.020)
Nonwhite −0.017 −0.103 a 0.089 b −0.023 −0.012 −0.104 a 0.100 b −0.027
(0.030) (0.032) (0.033) (0.032) (0.031) (0.032) (0.034) (0.032)
Married −0.023 0.031 −0.013 0.024 −0.019 0.021 −0.007 0.030
(0.023) (0.028) (0.022) (0.027) (0.023) (0.028) (0.022) (0.027)
Never married −0.007 0.001 0.016 0.032 −0.003 −0.001 0.017 0.028
(0.027) (0.031) (0.025) (0.030) (0.027) (0.031) (0.025) (0.030)
Part time employed −0.023 −0.059 0.074 c 0.028 −0.030 −0.051 0.074 c 0.032
(0.032) (0.034) (0.037) (0.035) (0.032) (0.034) (0.037) (0.035)
Disabled 0.023 −0.046 0.035 −0.042 0.019 −0.037 0.025 −0.034
(0.037) (0.037) (0.036) (0.036) (0.036) (0.038) (0.035) (0.037)
Other employment status 0.013 −0.060 0.021 0.007 0.017 −0.053 0.020 0.010
(0.031) (0.033) (0.029) (0.031) (0.031) (0.033) (0.029) (0.031)
Income less than $10,000 0.043 −0.004 0.014 −0.050 0.046 −0.017 0.018 −0.055
(0.031) (0.035) (0.028) (0.032) (0.031) (0.035) (0.029) (0.032)
Income $10,000–$25,000 0.008 −0.015 0.020 −0.015 0.010 −0.031 0.021 −0.013
(0.031) (0.032) (0.029) (0.029) (0.031) (0.031) (0.029) (0.029)
Insured 0.038 −0.025 0.052 b −0.054 0.033 −0.023 0.057 b −0.053
(0.024) (0.030) (0.020) (0.029) (0.024) (0.030) (0.020) (0.029)
Psychosis 0.048 0.025 0.024 −0.095 a 0.051 0.024 0.019 −0.089 a
(0.026) (0.029) (0.025) (0.025) (0.026) (0.029) (0.024) (0.025)
Clinical status (ref=Recovered)
Depression 0.056 0.016 −0.036 −0.124 a 0.061 −0.002 −0.023 −0.115 a
(0.034) (0.035) (0.025) (0.024) (0.035) (0.034) (0.026) (0.026)
Mania −0.017 −0.040 0.155 −0.059 −0.016 −0.056 0.168 −0.050
(0.078) (0.080) (0.088) (0.066) (0.078) (0.076) (0.090) (0.069)
Mixed −0.082 −0.023 0.077 −0.060 −0.079 −0.045 0.131 −0.049
(0.059) (0.080) (0.074) (0.066) (0.060) (0.075) (0.087) (0.070)
Hypomania 0.148 −0.078 0.055 −0.069 0.169 −0.100 0.078 −0.069
(0.088) (0.069) (0.070) (0.056) (0.091) (0.064) (0.076) (0.056)
Continuing symptoms 0.090 c 0.026 −0.044 −0.111 a 0.103 b −0.009 −0.032 −0.089 a
(0.038) (0.036) (0.025) (0.025) (0.039) (0.035) (0.027) (0.027)
Roughening 0.097 0.091 −0.007 −0.034 0.089 0.103 −0.007 −0.036
(0.061) (0.061) (0.042) (0.044) (0.060) (0.061) (0.042) (0.044)
Recovering – depression 0.093 c 0.069 −0.046 −0.156 a 0.109 c 0.053 −0.039 −0.153 a
(0.045) (0.044) (0.029) (0.024) (0.046) (0.043) (0.030) (0.024)
Recovering – mania −0.014 −0.093 0.046 0.071 0.005 −0.131 c 0.062 0.095
(0.077) (0.074) (0.072) (0.076) (0.083) (0.063) (0.078) (0.080)
Recovering – mixed 0.020 −0.021 0.013 −0.064 0.044 −0.054 0.019 −0.051
(0.069) (0.066) (0.057) (0.048) (0.074) (0.061) (0.059) (0.051)
Recovering – hypomania 0.119 −0.047 −0.068 −0.105 0.164 −0.041 −0.060 −0.129
(0.141) (0.118) (0.078) (0.084) (0.149) (0.121) (0.084) (0.072)
Recovering - other 0.076 c −0.071 c 0.051 −0.092 a 0.088 c −0.083 b 0.060 c −0.087 a
(0.036) (0.031) (0.029) (0.024) (0.036) (0.031) (0.029) (0.024)
Sample size 1,759 1,759
Pseudo R-squared 0.045 0.082

Notes:

1

For each column, figures compare the class indicated to the reference class: No mood stabilizer.

2

AD denotes antidepressant, AP is antipsychotic, MS is mood stabilizer.

a

significant at p<.01,

b

significant at p<.05,

c

significant at p<.05 without Bonferroni correction).