Prediction of length of stay out of the hospital for released psychiatric patients.

Abstract

The scores of 104 consecutively released nongeriatric psychiatric patients on the California Psychological Inventory, the Waco Social Adequacy Scale, Opinions about Mental Illness Scale (administered to relatives also) and background variables were correlated with success or failure in achieving a 9-month uninterrupted stay in the community after release. Only the Waco, OMI Authoritarianism, Benevolence, and Social Restrictiveness, and 4 of the background variable correlated significantly (p < .10) with the criterion. Multiple-regression analyses were performed with selected sets of predictor variables. The optimal combination of patient variables yielded a multiple R of .52, and the OMI scores of relatives yielded a multiple R of .26.

Prediction of community stay and employment for released psychiatric patients.

“…The findings of some of the more recent studies concerned with predicting release outcomes are discussed in the earlier report (Lorei, 1964). Since that review, Johnston and McNeal (1965) found that patients whose MMPI exit profiles were judged improved over their admission profiles stay out of the hospital significantly longer than patients who did not show this improvement.…”

“…Predictor Measures-Relative Lorei (1964) and Freeman and Simmons (1963) found that relatives' attitudes toward mental illness were modestly related to length of communitystay criteria. Since the OMI, the instrument the writer used in his first study, was written for hospital personnel rather than for relatives, a 60-item Likert-type opinion questionnaire was written that dealt more specifically with issues likely to be of concern to relatives of returning patients.…”

“…In an earlier paper, the writer reported an attempt to predict whether psychiatric patients would remain in the community for at least 9 months after release (Lorei, 1964). The California Psychological Inventory (CPI; Gough, 19S7), the Waco Social Adequacy Scale (Pinchak & Rollins, 1960), the Opinions about Mental Illness Questionnaire (OMI; Cohen & Struening, 1962), and background data from records were selected as hypothesized predictors.…”

The Cognitive Foundations of Personality Traits

“…For the code of the CPI scales, see Table 8. bThe assumption that Wb assesses denial of one's emotions may help to resolve the apparent contradiction between findings that show that high scorers on Wb are healthier than low scorers (Canter, 1963;Goodstein, Crites, Heilbrun, & Rempel, 1961;Gough, 1969b) and findings that show no difference in mental health between high and low scorers (Lorei, 1964;Stewart, 1962). Megargee (1972, p. 52) mentioned Gough's suggestion that Wb assesses a state rather than a trait but was skeptical about it.…”

Opinions About Mental Illness Held by Patients and Relatives

“…Specifically, an atmosphere high in authoritarian restrictiveness was found to be negatively associated with the number of in‐community days, while other atmosphere types were positively related to the same criterion. In still another study, relatives' opinions about mental illness were shown to be correlated with the success or failure of psychiatric patients to achieve a 9‐month uninterrupted community stay following hospital release (5). Low scores for authoritarian and restrictive attitudes and high scores for benevolent attitudes were significantly related to success.…”