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. 2015 Aug 4;15:187. doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0545-3

Table 3.

Suicidal ideation and attempts in psychiatric patients compared with patients not reporting any suicidality

Russian cohort (95 % CI) Norwegian cohort (95 % CI)
Attempters Ideators Attempters Ideators
Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate
Male sex 1.08 (0.44–2.64) 0.36 (0.17–0.77)** 0.91 (0.49–1.71) 0.89 (0.57–1.39)
Age < 40 7.26 (2.62–20.15)*** 5.25 (1.74–15.86)** 1.24 (0.57–2.68) 1.38 (0.60–3.14) 1.89 (1.00–3.59)* 1.57 (0.99–2.51)*
Working/student 1.01 (0.83–2.64) 0.42 (0.12–1.39) 0.19 (0.05–0.81)* 0.14 (0.03–0.61)** 2.72 (1.14–6.50)* 1.26 (0.59–2.70)
Overactive (HoNOS 1) 1.61 (0.62–4.21) 2.41 (0.96–6.05) 0.64 (0.34–1.20) 0.91 (0.42–2.00) 0.37 (0.23–0.59)*** 0.48 (0.27–0.86)*
Problems alc/drug (HoNOS 3) 1.54 (0.14–3.87) 1.09 (0.35–3.45) 0.42 (0.19–0.90)* 0.31 (0.13–0.72)** 2.62 (1.37–5.01)** 2.83 (1.30–6.18)** 1.34 (0.83–2.15) 1.63 (0.89–2.98)
Cognitive problems (HoNOS 4) 0.56 (0.23–1.37) 0.85 (0.41–1.81) 0.18 (0.08–0.39)*** 0.23 (0.10–0.55)** 0.49 (0.31–0.78)** 0.64 (0.36–1.13)
Depressed moods (HoNOS 7) 2.30 (0.67–7.93) 1.81 (0.43–7.61) 10.52 (1.41–78.23) *** 16.48 (2.18–124.79)** 14.95 (4.48–49.89)*** 14.13 (3.96–50.41)*** 8.88 (4.15–16.95)*** 7.69 (3.74–15.80)***
Problems activities (HoNOS 10) 0.34 (0.14–0.82)* 0.67 (0.39–1.83) 0.37 (0.19–0.71)** 0.60 (0.37–0.98)*
GAF-S ≥40 1.05 (0.44–2.48) 1.43 (0.68–3.02) 3.38 (1.73–6.63)*** 4.42 (2.68–7.30)***
GAF-F ≥40 0.97 (0.41–2.30) 1.73 (0.82–3.72) 3.75 (1.93–7.29)*** 2.68 (1.21–5.94)* 3.03 (1.88–4.90)*** 2.19 (1.21–3.95)*
Affective disorder (ICD-10) 1.32 (0.16–10.54) 3.07 (0.82–11.43) 2.23 (1.10–4.54)* 2.79 (1.66–4.70)***
Psychosis (ICD-10) 0.27 (0.13–0.58)* 0.23 (0.13–0.58)*** 0.27 (0.13–0.58)** 0.53 (0.22–1.28) 0.23 (0.13–0.38)*** 0.27 (0.14–0.51)***
Personality disorder (ICD-10) 1.84 (0.93–3.64) 3.93 (0.61–25.23) 4.24 (1.34–13.47)* 6.74 (1.54–29.44)*
Adjustment disorder (ICD-10) 31.50 (10.47–94.76)*** 24.32 (6.62–89.36) *** 1.57 (0.19–12.98)* 1.73 (0.19–16.13) 11.30 (1.15–111.11) 11.15 (1.38–90.26)*
Alcohol/drug disorder (ICD-10) 0.35 (0.13–0.98)* 0.44 (0.19–1.01)* 1.73 (0.62–4.81) 1.47 (0.67–3.24)
Referred by someone who knows patient 0.26 (0.09–0.77)* 0.36 (0.10–1.26) 0.58 (0.26–1.27)* 0.35 (0.15–0.83)* 0.43 (0.22–0.84)* 0.63 (0.40–0.99)*

Patients with no suicidality used as reference category; Personality disorders got no estimates in the Russian cohort owing to few subjects (N = 3); Significance: *p ≤ 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001