Urgent and Nonurgent Presentations to a Psychiatric Emergency Service in Nigeria: Pattern and Correlates

Table 5

Regression analysis of factors associated with urgency of presentation.

Variable	𝐵	SE	Wald	𝑃	OR	95% CI
Employment status	−0.48	0.23	4.49	0.034	0.62	0.39–0.43
Marital status	−0.21	0.21	0.95	0.329	0.81	0.52–0.73
Physical restraint	2.47	0.43	33.11	<0.001	11.79	5.01–7.61
With ambulance/police	0.33	0.38	0.77	0.381	1.39	0.61–0.78
Defaulting	0.95	0.22	19.06	<0.001	2.59	1.64–1.92
Need to refill drugs	−2.79	0.41	45.98	<0.001	0.06	0.07–0.09
Suicidality	1.26	0.34	17.32	<0.001	5.42	1.86–3.52
Substance use	1.15	0.30	14.34	<0.001	3.16	1.74–2.91

OR: odds ratio.