Psychopathological symptoms of patients with heroin addiction entering opioid agonist or therapeutic community treatment

Table 1 Logistic regression carried out in 2,250 heroin-addicted patients at treatment entry

	STEP	B	Odds ratio	Min	Max	P
Variables in equation
Being at first treatment	1	–2.42	0.08	0.05	0.15	0.000
Heroin history length	2	0.008	1.01	1.006	1.009	0.000
Working	3	–0.55	0.57	0.44	0.74	0.000
SCL-90 dominant groups	4					0.000
SCL-90 dominant group (somatic symptom)^a		–7.48	0.47	0.32	0.69	0.000
SCL-90 dominant group (sensitivity-psychoticism)^a		–0.19	0.82	0.54	1.23	0.344
SCL-90 dominant group (panic anxiety)^a		0.16	1.01	0.68	1.51	0.938
SCL-90 dominant group (violence-suicide)^a		–0.41	0.66	0.43	0.99	0.049
Female gender	5	0.35	1.42	1.03	1.94	0.028
Variables not in equation
Presence of welfare benefits
Age
Statistic: chi-square 321.70, df 8, p < 001

It includes SCL-90 factors and other demographic and clinical variables as determinants, and treatment group (TC versus AOT) as a dependent variable.
^aConsidering dominant `worthlessness-being trapped’ as reference group.

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