The household economic burden of eating disorders and adherence to treatment in Australia

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Determinants of catastrophic health expenditure

	Unadjusted point estimate		Adjusted point estimate ^a
Characteristics	OR (95% CI)	P-Value	OR, 95% CI	P-Value
Time since diagnosis (years)	1.05 (0.99-1.11)	0.092	1.15 (1.01-1.31)	0.04
Number of hospital admissions in previous 12 months	1.39 (0.91-2.12)	0.133	1.54 (1.01-2.36)	0.05
Number of hardship indicators	1.11 (0.99-1.24)	0.062	0.76 (0.56-1.03)	0.08
Reached Medicare Safety Net		0.034		0.098
Yes	1.0		1.0
No	0.12 (0.021-0.62)		0.059 (0.004-0.90)
Don’t know	0.46 (0.16-1.32)		1.23 (0.23-6.46)

^aThe adjusted model was built using backward selection of all variables associated with the outcome variable at the level of P <0.25 in univariate analysis (See Additional file 1: Table S2). Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test: χ²:6.40, p = 0.60.

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