2018 Volume 45 Issue 6 Pages 366-372
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine predictive factors connected with the home discharge of psychiatric inpatients.
Methods: This study included 108 inpatients with schizophrenia or mood disorder, who had undergone physical therapy (PT) between January 2012 and June 2016. We retrospectively studied the factors from the medical records and compared these between the two groups. Next, we analyzed the differences between factors using multiple logistic regression analysis.
Results: Factors associated with psychiatric inpatients’ home discharge indicated by the multiple logistic regression analysis were “place of residence before physical disease onset” [p<0.001, odds ratio (OR) 6.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.30-16.26]; “Barthel Index (BI) score at the time of PT end ≧ 65 points” (p=0.001, OR 5.37, 95% CI 1.93-14.95); “Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) score at the time of PT end ≧51 points” (p=0.03, OR 3.68, 95% CI 1.13-12.02); and “presence of the primary caregiver” (p=0.03, OR 2.98, 95% CI 1.09-2.98).
Conclusions: Place of residence before physical disease onset, higher BI score at the end of PT, higher GAF score at end of PT, and presence of the primary caregiver might be the factors associated with psychiatric inpatients’ home discharge.
