Long-Term Effects of the Treatment of Depressive Female Inpatients in a Naturalistic Study: Is Early Improvement a Valid Predictor of Outcome?

Table 5

Binary logistic regression analyses of the covariates/factors associated with treatment outcome at posttreatment and follow-up for the early improvement definition after 20 days (EI20/NEI20).

	𝐵 (SE)	OR	95% CI	𝑃 value
Posttreatment
Baseline BDI	−.11 (.02)	.89	.86–.93	.000
Treatment duration	−.01 (.01)	.99	.98–1.00	.016
Age	.00 (.01)	1.00	.98–1.02	.997
EI20/NEI20	−1.15 (.39)	.315	.15–.67	.003
CD/NCD	.18 (.46)	1.19	.48–2.95	.705
Interaction EI20/NEI20 × CD/NCD	.71 (.74)	2.04	.48–8.78	.337
Follow-up
Baseline BDI	−.06 (.02)	.94	.92–.97	.000
Treatment duration	−.01 (.01)	1.00	.96–1.00	.048
Age	.01 (.01)	1.01	1.00–1.03	.142
EI20/NEI20	−.53 (.33)	.59	.31–1.13	.114
CD/NCD	.26 (.38)	1.30	.62–2.71	.493
Interaction EI20/NEI20 × CD/NCD	.46 (.63)	1.58	.46–5.40	.468