Table 4.

Independent variables significantly associated with admission and discharge legal status among 221 hospitalized patients

Variable	Legal status categorya	B	SE	aOR	95% CI
Psychotic symptoms at discharge	INV-VOL	−0.02	0.44	0.98	0.42, 2.32
	INV-INV	1.49	0.46	4.42	1.80, 10.86
Documented medical problems requiring medication at discharge	INV-VOL	−0.48	0.40	0.62	0.28, 1.35
	INV-INV	−1.51	0.43	0.22	0.10, 0.51
Number of psychiatric medications at discharge (>2)	INV-VOL	−1.80	0.52	0.17	0.06, 0.46
	INV-INV	−0.88	0.51	0.41	0.15, 1.12

The model controls for psychiatric hospital unit, length of hospital stay, prior psychiatric hospitalization, and receiving disability payments (SSI/SSDI)

^a VOL-VOL (voluntary legal status on both admission and discharge) is the referent group for all comparisons; INV-VOL, involuntary legal status on admission, voluntary status on discharge; INV-INV, involuntary legal status on both admission and discharge

B, Coefficient value from the final regression model; SE, standard error; aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval