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

Table 3 Predictors of time from committee decision to admission and time patients remain in vocational rehabilitation.

Independent variable	Prediction of time from committees' decision to its implementation¹				Prediction of time patients remain in vocational rehabilitation²
	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p	N	OR	C.I. (95%)	p
Age (years)				0.020				0.011
18-21	902	1.10	1.01-1.20	0.031	708	1.12	1.01-1.23	0.023
22-55	9724	1.00			7289	1.00
56+	856	0.93	0.85-1.02	0.110	573	1.12	1.01-1.24	0.031
Rehabilitation history				0.000				0.008
No rehabilitation history	7082	1.00			5068	1.00
Vocational in the past	2086	1.30	1.23-1.39	0.000	1701	1.02	0.95-1.09	0.569
Hostel and/or supported housing in the past	190	0.88	0.73-1.08	0.212	137	1.24	1.03-1.51	0.026
Other rehabilitation in the past	762	0.98	0.89-1.08	0.705	577	1.04	0.94-1.16	0.445
Hostel and/or supported housing in the present	404	0.87	0.76-1.00	0.050	336	0.84	0.73-0.97	0.016
Other rehabilitation in the present	958	1.10	1.01-1.20	0.024	751	0.92	0.84-1.02	0.113
Proximity of committees' decision to hospitalization				0.006				0.915
No hospitalization history	1919	1.12	1.03-1.21	0.006	1409	0.98	0.90-1.07	0.687
More than two months since release from hospitalization	6094	1.10	1.03-1.17	0.003	4655	0.99	0.93-1.06	0.744
Two months or less or within hospitalization	3469	1.00			2506	1.00
Total	11482				8570

¹Controlling for referring agency and for regional committee. The higher OR is, the shorter the time from the committees' 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 vocational rehabilitation.