Is the level of institutionalisation found in psychiatric housing services associated with the severity of illness and the functional impairment of the patients? A patient record analysis

Table 4 Logistic Regression models for the association between suicide attempts, legal guardianship and accommodation setting

	Suicide attempt during lifetime		Legal guardianship
	OR	p	OR	p
Type of housing: “No housing support” as reference category
Private household with add. welfare supp.	0.450	0.074	13.665	0.000
Foster families for adults	0.112	0.001	4.779	0.017
Staffed apartments	1.010	0.989	11.907	0.026
Intensively staffed group homes	0.562	0.143	18.831	0.000
Psychiatric nursing homes	0.717	0.454	5.708	0.001
Control variables
Age	0.994	0.558	1.060	0.000
Gender	0.398	0.002	1.090	0.824
Living situation (single)	0.434	0.174	0.122	0.008
Diagnosis of schizophrenia	0.737	0.299	1.686	0.177
Constant	5.344	0.016	0.023	0.000
F/p	27.01	0.000	79.69	0.000
Pseudo R²	0.078		0.287
N	250		250

Abbreviations: GAF Global Assessment of Functioning, CGI Clinical Global Impression;
Statistical parameters: OR = odds ratio; p = level of significance; F = value on F-distribution for variances; Pseufo R² = fit of regression analysis as degree of explanation effect by this model; N = sample size
Dichotomous variables: gender: women = 0; men = 1; living situation: 0 = single; 1 = living in couple; diagnosis: 1 = schizophrenia; 0 = any other diagnosis according to ICD-10

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