Table 5.

Multivariable logistic regression models of clients receiving any psychiatry visits within each provincial cohort.

	WRHA ( n = 5,278 and 908			Nova Scotia ( n = 5,323 and 223
	received psychiatry visit)			received psychiatry visit)
	Wald chi-square	P	Odds ratio*	Wald chi-square	P	Odds ratio*
Age group: 60–64	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
65–74	0.13	0.718	0.92	0.22	0.638	1.26
75– 84	5.02	0.025	0.60	0.21	0.648	0.80
85 and older	16.31	<0.0001	0.40	2.04	0.153	0.49
Female	3.57	0.059	0.85	0.34	0.560	1.10
Married	0.16	0.689	0.96	1.20	0.273	0.84
No informal caregiver	2.02	0.156	1.56	3.43	0.064	2.18
Made economic trade-offs due to limited funds	0.47	0.493	1.15	1.07	0.299	0.69
Antipsychotics in the past 7 days	110.94	<0.0001	3.33	11.88	0.001	1.82
Anxiolytics in the past 7 days	32.10	<0.0001	1.79	10.92	0.001	1.68
Antidepressants in the past 7 days	37.53	<0.0001	1.96	16.89	<0.0001	1.80
Alzheimer's/related dementia	110.26	<0.0001	2.50	2.43	0.119	1.31
Depressive symptoms (DRS 3+)	47.42	<0.0001	2.10	4.86	0.028	1.40
Condition makes cognition, mood, ADL or behavior unstable	13.74	0.000	1.38	8.40	0.004	1.64
High risk of long-term care home entry (MAPLe 4 or 5)	11.89	0.001	1.40	1.84	0.174	1.27
Not at ease with others	17.88	<0.0001	0.59	0.05	0.827	0.95
Hallucinations	6.41	0.011	1.44	0.02	0.888	1.05
Delusions	1.56	0.211	1.38	0.39	0.532	0.83
Tobacco use daily	2.74	0.098	1.50	0.05	0.823	1.05
C-Statistic (area under ROC Curve)	0.761			0.725

^*Caution to not directly compare odds ratios between WRHA and Nova Scotia, since the rate of receipt of psychiatry visits differs between the two jurisdictions. These are p values significant at the 0.05 (95% confidence) level.