Trends in the use of rehabilitation services in the community by people with mental disabilities in Israel; the factors involved

Table 1 Predictors of time from committee decision to admission and of time patients remain in hostel.

Independent variable	Prediction of time from committees' decision to its implementation¹				Prediction of time patients remain in hostel²
	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p
Age (years)				0.000				0.000
18-21	477	0.67	0.59-0.78	0.000	263	1.63	1.38-1.90	0.000
22-55	3700	1.00			2672	1.00
56+	465	1.01	0.89-1.14	0.926	326	0.81	0.69-0.95	0.010
Rehabilitation history				0.000				0.028
No rehabilitation history	2534	1.00			1706	1.00
Hostel in the past	696	1.27	1.15-1.41	0.000	567	1.14	1.00-1.29	0.054
Supported housing in the past	75	1.13	0.85-1.50	0.405	53	1.41	0.97-2.05	0.068
Vocational or other rehabilitation in the past	678	1.04	0.93-1.16	0.499	481	1.07	0.93-1.22	0.333
Supported housing in the present	175	1.30	1.08-1.60	0.007	128	1.30	1.01-1.68	0.042
Vocational or other rehabilitation in the present	484	1.05	0.92-1.19	0.510	326	1.21	1.03-1.42	0.018
Proximity of committees' decision to hospitalization				0.000				0.586
No hospitalization history	279	0.73	0.61-0.87	0.001	158	1.11	0.89-1.38	0.365
More than two months since release from hospitalization	1238	0.66	0.60-0.73	0.000	765	0.98	0.87-1.11	0.799
Two months or less or within hospitalization	3125	1.00			2338	1.00
Total	4642				3261

¹Controlling for referring agency and for regional committee. The higher OR is, the shorter the time from the committee decision to implementation.
²Controlling for: referring agency, regional committee, and time from the committees' decision to its implementation. The lower OR is, the longer the time the patients remain in the hostel.