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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2006 Nov;57(11):1600–1606. doi: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.11.1600

Table 3.

Factors contributing to the decision to conditionally release hospitalized psychiatric patients in Victoria, Australia, between 1990 and 2000a

Characteristic B SE p Exp(B)
Organizational factors
 Had an inpatient episode longer than the 38-day average .04 .07 .597 1.04
 Number of inpatient episodes .10 .00 <.001 1.11
 Interaction of inpatient episode greater than 38 days by number of inpatient episodes .06 .01 <.001 1.07
 Time from the first date known to the mental health system to last face-to-face contact .00 .00 <.001 1.00
Demographic factors
 Age −.15 .01 <.001 .86
 Gender .10 .03 <.001 1.11
Community involvement factors
 Employed −.20 .05 <.001 .82
 Currently married −.32 .04 <.001 .73
Premorbid factors
 Age at the first date known to the mental health system .16 .01 <.001 1.17
 More than an 11th grade education −.04 .04 .287 .96
 Never married .03 .04 .467 1.03
Diagnostic factors
 Major affective disorder .39 .07 <.001 1.48
 Dementia .73 .08 <.001 2.07
 Schizophrenia 1.38 .06 <.001 3.99
 Paranoia and other psychoses 1.34 .11 <.001 3.81
a

Model characteristics: χ2=6,106.094, df=15, p<.001; Of the 24,973 cases, 74 percent (24,859 cases) were classified correctly and less than 1 percent (114 cases) had missing information and therefore were not considered in the analysis.