Prevalence and associated factors of suicide among hospitalized schizophrenic patients

Table 3 Factors associated with suicidal risk in multivariable analysis (n = 212)

Characteristics	Multivariable ordinal logistic regression1
	aOR (95%CI)	P value	Pseudo R2
Age (per 1 yr increase)	0.95 (0.92-0.99)	0.031a	0.2084
Current major depressive episode	26.88 (4.05-178.59)	0.001a
Received fluoxetine in previous month	18.59 (4.50-76.77)	< 0.001a
Received lithium carbonate in previous month	2.97 (1.10-8.01)	0.032a
Charlson comorbidity index (per 1 point increase)	1.20 (1.03-1.40)	0.020a

¹Multivariable analysis with backward elimination with selected variables in univariable analysis included sex, age, schizophrenia with secondary depression, lifetime psychotic disorder, current major depressive episode, chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, AMA, fluoxetine, lithium carbonate, level of medication compliance, electroconvulsive therapy, Charlson comorbidity index, and psychosocial score.

^aP < 0.05. aOR: Adjusted odds ratio; CI: Confidence interval.