Patterns of psychiatric admissions and predictors of patient’s outcome in Jimma University Teaching and Referral Hospital: a retrospective study

Table 2 Independent predictors of patient’s improvement status, at Jimma University Training and Teaching Specialized Hospital, southwest Ethiopia, 2015

Variables	Categories	Patients status		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	P value
Variables	Categories	Currently not improved	Currently improved	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	P value
Sex	Male	63	200	0.88 (0.55–0.42)
Sex	Female	36	101	1
Age group	≤24	42	136	1
	25–34	36	95	0.81 (0.49–1.37)
	≥35	21	70	1.03 (0.57–1.87)
Education	Illiterate	27	82	1
	Grade 1–8	31	48	0.51 (0.27–0.95)	1.34 (1.18–2.78)	0.009
	Grade 9–12	24	93	1.28 (0.68–2.38)
	Grade 12+	19	78	1.35 (0.70–2.62)
Marital status	Single	68	191	1
	Married	26	83	1.14 (0.68–1.91)	2.81 (1.90–4.50)	0.043
	Widowed, divorced	5	27	1.92 (0.71–5.19)
Occupation	Unemployed	27	93	1
	Farmers	18	40	0.65 (0.32–1.30)
	Gov’t employee	11	42	1.11 (0.50–2.44)
	Students	27	83	0.89 (0.48–1.64)
	House wife or merchants	18	43	0.69 (0.34–1.39)
Religion	Muslim	71	173	1
	Orthodox	17	75	1.81 (1.00–3.28)	1.81 (1.00–3.28)	0.0001
	Protestant or catholic	13	53	1.67 (0.86–3.26)
substances abused	Abuse substances	53	153	1	1
substances abused	Not abuse substances	48	148	1.07 (0.68–1.68)
Previous admission	Yes	30	61	1	1
Previous admission	No	71	240	1.66 (0.10–2.77)	2.82 (2.05–3.17)	0.034
Patient’s diagnosis	Schizophrenia	22	75	1	1
	Depression and anxiety	27	74	0.80 (0.42–1.54)
	Bipolar disorder	28	76	0.80 (0.42–1.52)
	Brief psychotic disorder	24	76	0.93 (0.48–1.80)
Length of stay	1–20 days	23	79	1	1
	21–30 days	26	72	0.81 (0.42–1.54)
	31–44 days	26	77	0.86 (0.45–1.64)	1.88 (1.42–2.65)	0.035
	>44 days	24	73	0.89 (0.46–1.70)

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