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

Table 2 Predictors of time from committee decision to admission and time patients remain in supported housing.

Independent variable	Prediction of time from committees' decision to its implementation¹				Prediction of time patients remain in supported housing²
	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p
Age (years)				0.024				0.000
18-21	222	0.91	0.77-1.07	0.260	168	2.24	1.82-2.77	0.000
22-55	4062	1.00			3133	1.00
56+	472	1.15	1.02-1.28	0.017	367	0.90	0.76-1.08	0.264
Rehabilitation history				0.001				0.000
No rehabilitation history	2699	1.00			2015	1.00
Supported housing in the past	309	0.96	0.83-1.11	0.600	257	0.87	0.70-1.09	0.231
Hostel in the past	86	0.94	0.73-1.22	0.654	69	2.16	1.63-2.87	0.000
Vocational or other rehabilitation in the past	639	1.01	0.91-1.26	0.784	496	1.00	0.86-1.16	0.991
Hostel in the present	207	0.65	0.54-0.79	0.000	172	1.09	0.83-1.42	0.543
Vocational or other rehabilitation in the present	816	0.99	0.90-1.10	0.963	695	0.86	0.74-0.99	0.036
Proximity of committees' decision to hospitalization				0.093				0.000
No hospitalization history	691	0.95	0.85-1.07	0.380	533	0.73	0.61-0.87	0.000
More than two months since release from hospitalization	2445	0.91	0.84-0.99	0.030	1885	0.79	0.70-0.90	0.000
Two months or less or within hospitalization	1620	1.00			1250	1.00
Total	4756				3668

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