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

Table 6

Binary logistic regression analyses of the covariates/factors associated with treatment outcome at posttreatment and follow-up for the early improvement definition after 30 days (EI30/NEI30).

	𝐵 (SE)	OR	95% CI	𝑃 value
Posttreatment
Baseline BDI	−.12 (.02)	.89	.86–.92	.000
Treatment duration	−.01 (.01)	.99	.98–1.00	.023
Age	−.00 (.01)	.99	.98–1.02	.913
EI30/NEI30	−1.29 (.39)	.28	.13–.59	.001
CD/NCD	.15 (.44)	1.16	.49–2.72	.739
Interaction EI30/NEI30 days × CD/NCD	.90 (.82)	2.45	.50–12.13	.272
Follow-up
Baseline BDI	−.06 (.01)	.94	.92–.97	.000
Treatment duration	−.01 (.00)	.99	.99–1.00	.076
Age	.01 (.01)	1.01	1.00–1.03	.148
EI30/NEI30	−.92 (.34)	.40	.21–.78	.007
CD/NCD	.04 (.36)	1.04	.51–2.11	.909
Interaction EI30/NEI30 × CD/NCD	1.18 (.69)	3.25	8.34–12.67	.089