Of 195 patients admitted to a state hospital over a four-month period,
74 were multiple recidivists. Nearly half of the 195 patients could be
assigned to one of six profile subgroups of recidivists described in a
previous study. Because of the high rate of medication noncompliance in
this state hospital sample (65 percent), noncompliance alone was not an
adequate predictor of multiple recidivism. The study found that membership
in a profile subgroup coupled with factors related to gender, medication
noncompliance, homelessness, and arrest history may be a more useful way of
predicting multiple recidivism in samples of newly admitted patients.
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