Table 3 Multiple regression analyses: Prediction of inpatient service utilization by distance (minutes in public transportation between patient’s homes and the mental hospital) and by available ecological variables of the communities
Inpatient cases per capita | Inpatient days per capita | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic of the community | B (95% CI) | SE | β | p | B (95% CI) | SE | β | p |
Constant | −5.515 (−18.375, 7.396) | 6.493 | .396 | − 130.031 (− 608.273, 453.067) | 271.087 | .694 | ||
Distance (travel time in minutes) | −0.014 (− 0.036, 0.008) | 0.011 | − 0.101 | .214 | − 0.748 (−1.618, 0.108) | 0.440 | −0.120 | .102 |
Age (mean in years) | 0.018 (−0.131, 0.184) | 0.081 | 0.014 | .829 | −1.342 (−9.410, 6.165) | 3.936 | −0.023 | .731 |
Female (%) | 14.807 (−11.975, 41.981) | 13.505 | 0.077 | .274 | 518.290 (−620.705, 1562.056) | 554.487 | 0.059 | .348 |
Immigrants (%) | 7.394 (3.995, 10.828) | 1.735 | 0.291 | <.001 | 196.137 (52.491, 338.146) | 72.500 | 0.169 | .012 |
Taxes (mean per inhabitant in Swiss Francs) | −0.000 (−0.001, 0.000) | 0.000 | −0.015 | .820 | 0.001 (−0.016, 0.019) | 0.009 | 0.003 | .949 |