Suicidal ideation among recently arrived refugees in Germany

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Logistic regression model for the association of suicidal ideation with different socio-demographic and flight-related characteristic as well as mental health outcomes in recently arrived refugees in Germany

Predictor	OR	95% CI	p
Age¹	.616	.440–.863	*.005*
Sex²	1.345	.763–2.371	.305
University degree³	1.410	.862–2.304	.171
Partnership³	1.112	.673–1.838	.679
Current information about family members left behind³	.855	.522–1.402	.535
Flight duration⁴	1.095	1.014–1.182	.020
Experiences of sexual violence⁵	2.253	1.355–3.748	.002
Combat or exposure to a war-zone⁵	1.009	.588–1.732	.975
Captivity⁵	.707	.413–1.209	.205
Somatoform symptoms⁶	1.020	.977–1.064	.377
PTSD symptoms⁷	1.143	1.009–1.041	.002
Symptoms of depression⁸	1.025	1.074–1.216	< .001
Self-rated physical health⁹	.998	.989–1.008	.752
Self-rated mental health⁹	.990	.980–1.000	.056
Model fit indices:
χ² / df / p −2 Log-Likelihood	194.309 / 14 / < .001 435.823
Nagelkerkes R²	.312
Cox & Snell R²	.444

¹in 4 groups according to Table 1; ²female = 1, male = 2; ³yes = 1, no = 2; ⁴range 0–27; ⁵no = 0, yes = 1; ⁶Total score of SSS-8; ⁷Total score of PCL-5; ⁸Total score of PHQ-8; ⁹range 0–100

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