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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2016 Dec 1;68(4):375–383. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201600233

TABLE 4.

Multivariable analyses of outcomes at program exit among 22,708 participants in veterans treatment courts (VTCs), other treatment courts (TCs), or neither VTCs nor TCs (non-TC participants)a

Characteristic VTC vs. other-TC participants
VTC vs. non-TC participants
Other-TC vs. non-TC participants
OR 99% CI OR 99% CI OR 99% CI
Days in program   .19b**   .56b**   .23b**
Housed in own place 1.51** 1.16–1.95 2.23** 1.97–2.48 1.28   .99–1.67
Employed 1.40   .98–1.99 2.18** 1.88–2.51 1.40* 1.02–1.95
Receiving VA benefits 1.23   .93–1.63 1.40** 1.26–1.58 1.04   .82–1.32
Receiving non-VA benefits   .79   .57–1.09 1.27** 1.09–1.49 1.51** 1.12–2.01
Monthly incomec   .09b   .25b**   .11b*
Any jail sanctions 1.08   .79–1.48 4.14** 3.49–4.90 3.86** 2.83–5.26
Any new arrests 1.30   .90–1.86 2.48** 2.08–2.97 1.88** 1.32–2.66
Any new incarcerations 1.21   .85–1.70 2.44** 2.05–2.89 1.99** 1.43–2.77
a

All participants were enrolled in the Veterans Justice Outreach program. The analyses controlled for site (N=142) and notable differences in characteristics of the groups at program admission.

b

Cohen’s d score; d>±.5 indicated a notable difference.

c

A log transformation was conducted on monthly income to normalize the data.

*

p<.01

**

p<.001