Correlates of success and lack of success in deinstitutionalization

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Abstract
This is a case study of ninety-two patients served by an outpatient service of a state psychiatric hospital in a rural area in west central New York State. The purpose was to identify variables associated with success (tenure in the community) and lack of success (number of readmissions within last year and five years and one subsequent year). Using a stepwise multiple regression analysis, age and living with others were positively correlated with success and negatively correlated with rehospitalizations within one year. Over a five-year period, affective disorders, inconsistency in taking medication, and having a hobby were correlated with multiple hospitalizations. In the year following data collection, readminissions were related only to inconsistency in taking medication. Mental health practitioners are advised to carefully follow up persons at highest risk of returning to the hospital.

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