Table 6.

Logistic regression models for homeless women’s past-year hospitalization, stratified by drug abuse

	Drug abusers (n=454)		Non-drug abusers (n=444)
Variable	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Predisposing factors
Ethnicity (vs. white)
African American	0.43	0.20, 0.95*	0.76	0.33, 1.74
Latina	0.63	0.25, 1.55	0.45	0.15, 1.30
Other	0.20	0.07, 0.60**	1.20	0.26, 5.49
Usual place to stay, past 30 nights: traditional housing	–	–	4.59	1.90, 11.06***
Physically abused, past 12 months	2.15	1.17, 3.94*	–	–
Socialization frequency	0.80	0.66, 0.98*	–	–
Mental health hospitalization, ever	1.94	0.93, 4.04	3.18	1.45, 6.97**
Enabling factors
Health insurance, past year	–	–	2.05	0.89, 4.73
Need factors
Pregnant, past year	2.89	1.32, 6.35**	12.0	4.95, 29.08***

Covariates in regression models differed by drug abuse. No statistics were reported for covariates not in the models.

En dash variable not used in the model

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001.