Help seeking and suicidality among people with epilepsy in a rural low income country setting: cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Factors associated with 12 months suicidality (dependent variable) in people with epilepsy (n = 298)

Characteristic (independent variables)	Suicidality number (%)	Univariate analysis		Multivariable analysis
Characteristic (independent variables)	Suicidality number (%)	Crude odds ratio (OR) for suicidality	95% Confidence interval (CI)	Adjusted OR for suicidality	95% CI
Age (in years)		1.01	0.99, 1.02	0.99	0.95, 1.02
Gender
Male	44 (14.7)	1.00		1.00
Female	46 (15.4)	1.78	1.08, 2.93	1.61	0.87, 2.98
Marital status
Single	33 (11.1)	1.00		1
Married	46 (15.4)	1.76	1.04, 3.00	2.75	1.19, 6.35
Formerly married	11 (3.6)	1.75	0.76, 4.02	1.56	0.46, 5.26
Relative wealth
Average and above	21 (7)	1.00		1.00
Poor	49 (16.4)	2.04	1.14, 3.72	1.64	0.80, 3.33
Very poor	19 (6.4)	2.42	1.15, 5.10	2.67	1.07, 6.68
Education
No formal	56 (18.8)	1.00
Formal education	34 (11.4)	0.89	0.53, 1.48
Area of residence
Urban	9 (3)	1.00
Rural	81 (27.2)	0.90	0.39, 2.08
Family size		0.94	0.83, 1.06	1.03	0.84, 1.27
Duration of travel to reach the nearby health center (minutes)
0–30	33 (11.1)	1.00
31–120	43 (14.4)	1.16	0.68, 1.98	0.89	0.47, 1.72
>120	13 (4.4)	1.71	0.77, 3.83	1.16	0.42, 3.15
DUE (in months)
0–23.99	38 (12.8)	1.00		1.00
24–636	40 (13.4)	0.85	0.50, 1.44	3.24	0.56, 18.86
Biomedical treatment
Yes	68 (22.8)	1.00
No	22 (7.4)	1.20	0.68, 2.11
Epilepsy severity (total NHS3 score)
FS		1.09	0.99, 1.19
GTC		1.03	0.97, 1.12
Depressive symptoms (total PHQ-9 score)		1.18	1.11, 1.25	1.17	1.10, 1.26
Use of alcohol
No use	64 (21.5)	1.00
Hazardous	17 (5.7)	1.31	0.68, 2.54
Harmful	2 (0.7)	0.80	0.16, 4.05
Dependent	7 (2.3)	0.93	0.37, 2.33

AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, NHS3 national hospital severity scale, PHQ-9 patient health questionnaire, DUE duration of untreated epilepsy, GTC generalized tonic seizure, FS focal seizure, HC health centre

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