Examining the relationship between health-related need and the receipt of care by participants experiencing homelessness and mental illness

Table 5 Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for associations between predictor variables and levels of service use for specialist health care visits (≥3 visits)

Outcome variable	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	P value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)*	P value
Predisposing Factors
Age at enrolment visit
Youth	0.33 (0.14, 0.78)	0.011
25-44 years	0.44 (0.18, 1.05)	0.065
> 44 years	0.44 (0.18, 1.05)	0.065
Education (≤Grade 8)	0.63 (0.37, 1.09)	0.097
Hospitalized for mental illness (>2 times) in past 5 years	2.48 (1.35, 4.56)	0.004	2.53 (1.35, 4.75)	0.004
Enabling Factors
Regular place to go for health care	2.32 (0.97, 5.57)	0.059
Needed health care but didn’t receive it (past year)	0.66 (0.37, 1.17)	0.159
Feelings about amount of time spent with other people	0.60 (0.31, 1.15)	0.122
Need Factors
Major Depressive Episode	1.71 (1.00, 2.94)	0.052	1.98 (1.11, 3.56)	0.021
Blood-borne Infectious diseases (HIV/HCV/HBV)	0.51 (0.26, 0.99)	0.045	0.48 (0.24, 0.97)	0.042

*Adjusted odds ratios and confidence intervals are only shown for variables that remained significant in the final logistic regression model.
Bolded p-values indicate significance at p < 0.05.

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