Socioeconomic status and psychiatric comorbidity associated with suicidal behavior among a sample of Egyptian patients who attended Tanta University emergency hospital for suicide-related problems

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 5 Shows results of regression analysis to test the predictors of score of Beck’s scale of suicidal ideation

Independent variable		N	B	Std. error	t	Sig.	95% confidence interval
Independent variable		N	B	Std. error	t	Sig.	Lower bound	Upper bound
Intercept			45.34	13.13	3.45	.002	18.49	72.18
Age			0.273	0.122	2.23	.034	0.02	0.52
Total socioeconomic scale			−0.38	0.180	−2.10	.044	−0.75	−0.01
Gender	Male	10	−8.09	3.73	−2.17	.039	−15.72	−0.45
Gender	Female	40	0a
Education	Illiterate	8	−8.25	5.38	−1.53	0.14	−19.26	2.75
	Read and write	2	−25.29	10.27	−2.46	0.02	−46.29	−4.29
	General education	26	−1.57	2.45	−0.64	0.53	−6.57	3.43
	University	14	0^a
Occupation	Not working	37	−3.11	2.72	−1.14	0.26	−8.68	2.45
	Nonskilled worker	2	−16.48	5.16	−3.20	0.00	−27.05	−5.94
	Skilled worker	5	−3.17	3.75	−0.84	0.41	−10.84	4.51
	Professional employee	6	0a
Marital status	Single	20	−16.79	6.51	−2.58	0.02	−30.11	−3.47
	Married	20	−11.74	4.96	−2.37	0.03	−21.87	−1.60
	Divorced	6	−16.40	7.06	−2.32	0.03	−30.83	−1.97
	Widowed	4	0a
SCID-1	No psychiatric symptoms	5	−9.68	3.21	−3.02	0.01	−16.24	−3.12
	Depression	17	−5.40	2.52	−2.14	0.04	−10.56	−0.24
	Anxiety	1	−1.56	4.72	−0.33	0.74	−11.22	8.09
	Psychosis	9	−1.25	3.08	−0.41	0.69	−7.54	5.05
	Bipolar	3	−2.28	3.33	−0.69	0.50	−9.08	4.53
	Substance use disorder	2	−6.70	3.91	−1.71	0.10	−14.70	1.30
	PTSD	1	−11.85	5.14	−2.31	0.03	−22.36	−1.34
	Depression with psychosis	5	−7.61	3.36	−2.26	0.03	−14.48	−0.73
	Depression with anxiety	7	0a

^aThis parameter was set to zero because it was redundant. Dependent variable, score of Beck scale for suicide ideation, R-squared = 0.796 (adjusted R-squared = 0.66), P < 0.05 was significant