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

Table 4 Associations between predictor variables and high primary health service use (≥3 visits)

Outcome variable	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	P value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)*	P value
Predisposing Factors
Ethnicity
Aboriginals	1.57 (0.76, 3.25)	0.221
Caucasian	1.90 (1.10, 3.28)	0.022
Other	1.90 (1.10, 3.28)	0.022
Single marital status	1.53 (0.97, 2.41)	0.069
Have children (under 18)	1.58 (0.98, 2.55)	0.061
Enabling Factors
Regular Family Physician	2.17 (1.31, 3.60)	0.003	2.27 (1.27, 4.07)	0.006
Regular place to go for health care	2.02 (1.06, 3.88)	0.034
Needed health care but didn’t receive it (past year)	1.64 (1.06, 2.55)	0.027
Feelings about family in general	1.77 (1.13, 2.78)	0.014
Feelings about things you do with other people	2.23 (1.39, 3.59)	0.001	1.74 (1.01, 2.99)	0.047
Need Factors
Multiple mental disorders (≥2)	1.74 (1.12, 2.70)	0.014
Less severe cluster of mental disorder	2.18 (1.38, 3.44)	0.001
Severe cluster of mental disorder	0.50 (0.31, 0.78)	0.003	0.59 (0.35, 0.97)	0.039
Substance dependence	1.80 (1.13, 2.86)	0.013
Blood-borne Infectious diseases (HIV/HCV/HBV)	1.82 (1.16, 2.84)	0.009
Multiple physical illness (≥2)	3.90 (1.75, 8.71)	0.001	2.74 (1.12, 6.70)	0.027
General Health (fair/poor)	2.12 (1.36, 3.31)	0.001	1.68 (1.01, 2.81)	0.047

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

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