Table 3.

Bivariate associations of demographic, clinical and intervention-setting variables with preference for coercive measure for patients with coercive experience (N = 97)

Predictor	Preference for forced medication
	N	OR	95% CI
Experience of seclusion	97	0.4	0.2–0.94**
Male gender	94	1.6	0.7–3.5
Voluntary legal status	92	3.0	1.2–7.3**
Diagnosed with psychotic disorder	83	0.9	0.4–2.4
Age	93	0.9	0.9–1.0
GAF score >50	78	1.2	0.5–3.0
GAF score <50			Reference
Perceived coercion score	65	0.9	0.9–1.0
Duration of seclusion perceived as too long	80	5.3	2.0–14.0***
Experienced improvement after the measure	60	1.1	0.3–3.5
Received explanation of the reason for the measure	82	2.0	0.6–6.7*
Satisfied with the quality of contact/care during the measure	94	2.3	0.9–5.8*
Approval of the measure	94	2.7	1.0–6.6**
Debriefed after the measure	87	1.3	0.5–3.2

* P < 0.25;** P < 0.05; *** P < 0.01; coding: seclusion (0), forced medication (1)