Predictors of suicidal behaviour in 36,304 individuals sickness absent due to stress-related mental disorders - a Swedish register linkage cohort study

Table 5 Multivariate Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI 95%) for suicide in people sickness absent due to stress-related mental disorders (N=36,304)

Characteristic	HR *	CI, 95%
*Sickness absence characteristics* ^a
Number of spells (any disorders) ^b
1	1
2	2.20	1.07–4.55
*Health care characteristics*
Hospital stay due to mental disorders (days) ^c
No hospital stay	1
1 to 8	3.47	1.22–9.92
> 8	3.66	1.33–10.07
Outpatient care visits due to mental diagnoses ^c
No visits	1
1	3.69	1.30–10.50
> 1	7.89	3.34–18.66

^* HR adjusted for sex, age, family situation, number of sick spells (any disorders) and days of hospital stay and outpatient care visits due to mental diagnoses; ^a Sickness absence due to stress-related mental diagnoses; ^b Number of new sick leave spells initiated in 2005 regardless of diagnosis; ^c Cut-offs are based on the diagnosis-specific median.

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