TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors affecting relapse in patients discharged from a public hospital
T2 - Results from survival analysis
AU - Mojtabai, Ramin
AU - Nicholson, Robert A.
AU - Neesmith, David H.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This study examined the effects of demographics, personal resources, and psychiatric characteristics on relapse risk in patients discharged from two state facilities. Data on 2002 first admissions to an Oklahoma state hospital and an associated CMHC during a single year, and information on readmissions of these patients to any of the seven state facilities providing inpatient treatment for an additional two years were collected. Data were analyzed by survival analysis with the Cox regression model. Out of the different demographic, social and psychiatric variables, the patients' diagnosis, length of index hospitalization and level of functioning at discharge as well as interaction of employment status and living status and interaction of age and living status were significantly related to relapse rate. These findings are discussed in the context of previous research.
AB - This study examined the effects of demographics, personal resources, and psychiatric characteristics on relapse risk in patients discharged from two state facilities. Data on 2002 first admissions to an Oklahoma state hospital and an associated CMHC during a single year, and information on readmissions of these patients to any of the seven state facilities providing inpatient treatment for an additional two years were collected. Data were analyzed by survival analysis with the Cox regression model. Out of the different demographic, social and psychiatric variables, the patients' diagnosis, length of index hospitalization and level of functioning at discharge as well as interaction of employment status and living status and interaction of age and living status were significantly related to relapse rate. These findings are discussed in the context of previous research.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1025401621060
DO - 10.1023/A:1025401621060
M3 - Article
C2 - 9114469
AN - SCOPUS:0030890153
SN - 0033-2720
VL - 68
SP - 117
EP - 129
JO - Psychiatric Quarterly
JF - Psychiatric Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -