Risk Factors Associated with Recurrent Homelessness After a First Homeless Episode.
Alcohol and drug use are commonly associated with the experience of homelessness. In order to better understand this, we explored the prevalence of drug and alcohol use as it related to successful re-housing within a sample of first-time single homeless adults at municipal shelters. From within this...
| Publicado en: | Community Mental Health Journal Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 505 - 514 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=96444612&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 96444612 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00103853 CMH jtl: Community Mental Health Journal issn: 00103853 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2014 vid: 50 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 96444612 10.1007/s10597-013-9608-4 ppf: 505 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 204KB tig: atl: Risk Factors Associated with Recurrent Homelessness After a First Homeless Episode. aug: au: McQuistion, Hunter Gorroochurn, Prakash Hsu, Eustace Caton, Carol affil: Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W. 168th Street New York 10032 USA Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, SGM 501, 3620 South McClintock Ave. Los Angeles 90089-1061 USA su: New York (State) Homelessness Housing Interviewing Substance abuse Social support Chi-squared test Statistical correlation Fisher exact test Longitudinal method Research funding Mathematical variables Logistic regression analysis Descriptive statistics Odds ratio sug: subj: Homelessness Housing Interviewing Substance abuse Social support New York (State) Other Community Housing Services Other Individual and Family Services Chi-squared test Statistical correlation Fisher exact test Longitudinal method Research funding Mathematical variables Logistic regression analysis Descriptive statistics Odds ratio keyword: Chemical misuse Chronic homelessness Criminal justice First episode homelessness Recurrent homelessness Chemical misuse Chronic homelessness Criminal justice First episode homelessness Recurrent homelessness ab: Alcohol and drug use are commonly associated with the experience of homelessness. In order to better understand this, we explored the prevalence of drug and alcohol use as it related to successful re-housing within a sample of first-time single homeless adults at municipal shelters. From within this sample, we compared the features of recurrent homelessness with those of chronic homelessness and of being stably housed. We interviewed 344 subjects upon shelter entry and followed each one every six months for 18 months using standardized social and mental health measures. We analyzed baseline assessments relative to housing experiences during follow-up using Chi square and multinomial logistic regression. Eighty-one percent (N = 278) obtained housing over 18 months, of which 23.7 % (N = 66) experienced homelessness again. Recurrent homelessness was more common among those with a high school education and if initially re-housed with family. Bivariate analysis resulted in the observation of the highest rate of alcohol and other drug use among this recurrent group and multinomial logistic regression supported this only with the coupling of arrest history and diagnosed antisocial personality disorder. With relatively high rates of recurrent homelessness, there were differences between subjects who experienced recurrent homelessness compared to those who were stably housed and with chronic homelessness. That alcohol and other substance use disorders were associated with recurrent homelessness only if they were linked to other risk factors highlights the complexity of causes for homelessness and a resultant need to organize them into constellations of causal risk factors. Consistent with this, there should be initiatives that span bureaucratic boundaries so as to flexibly meet multiple complex service needs, thus improving outcomes concerning episodes of recurrent homelessness. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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