An explorative study of factors associated with treatment in specialized mental health care centers among GP patients in Norway

Table 2 Regression analysis (generalized linear mixed model) of factors associated with treatment in specialized mental health care (SMHC) centers

	Unadjusted			Adjusted
	OR	CI (95%)	p	OR	CI (95%)	p
Male (ref: Female)	1.04	0.90 – 1.20	0.573	1.44	1.14 – 1.83	0.003
Age	0.99	0.98 – 0.99	<0.001	0.98	0.97 – 0.98	<0.001
Married (ref: Not married)	0.33	0.28 – 0.39	<0.001	0.48	0.40 – 0.59	<0.001
Immigrant (ref: Not immigrant)	0.72	0.62 – 0.84	<0.001	1.02	0.86 – 1.22	0.791
No. of Direct Contacts GP	1.10	1.09 – 1.12	<0.001	1.03	1.01 – 1.04	<0.001
No. of Indirect Contacts GP	1.07	1.07 – 1.08	<0.001	1.04	1.03 – 1.05	<0.001
Mental Health symptoms only	1.89	1.55 – 2.29	<0.001	5.95	4.69 – 7.55	<0.001
Mental Health diagnosis	20.40	17.49 – 23.80	<0.001	25.72	21.22 – 31.18	<0.001
GP age	1.00	0.99 – 1.02	0.675	1.00	0.99 – 1.01	0.854
GP is specialist (ref: GP not specialist)	1.08	0.76 – 1.52	0.682	1.09	0.76 – 1.56	0.642
GP is male (ref: GP is female)	1.05	0.78 – 1.41	0.770	1.09	0.80 – 1.48	0.589
Gender interaction (Male:GP male)	0.84	0.63 – 1.12	0.237	0.84	0.61 – 1.16	0.282

Note. Mental health symptoms only refers to whether a GP has coded a mental health problem but does not refer to a diagnosis of the patient. Mental health diagnosis refer to when a GP has coded a mental health diagnosis (with or without additional symptom code). Gender interaction is the additional effect when both the patient and GP are male.

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