BACKGROUND Homeless young people are recognized as a very vulnerable group in terms of mental health; however, few studies in the UK have examined this. Furthermore, homeless young people represent a heterogeneous group in terms of their mental health and greater characterization could improve intervention work. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to examine prevalence and subtypes of psyc...

Surveys conducted over the past two decades have demonstrated that homeless Americans are exceptionally diverse and include representatives from all segments of society—the old and the young; men and women; single people and families; city dwellers and rural residents; whites and people of color; and able-bodied workers and people with serious health problems. Veterans, who are among the most h...

grams are generally created with the needs of mainstream society in mind. Though these systems attempt to accommodate everyone, the unique challenges of serving marginalized populations make this difficult. And there is perhaps no population more challenging to assist in dying than the homeless. Yet this population needs support more than most others, says Wendy Muckle, executive director of Ot...

BACKGROUND Homeless people have high dropout rates when they participate in therapeutic processes. The causes of this failure are not always known. This study investigates whether dropping-out is mediated by personality disorders or whether psychosocial problems are more important. METHOD Eighty-nine homeless people in a socio-laboral integration process were assessed. An initial interview wa...

Correspondence: B. Josephine Ensign, Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Box 357263, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7263, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ENSIGN B.J . (2006) Journal of Advanced Nursing 54(6), 647–652 Perspectives and experiences of homeless young people Aim. This paper reports a study describing the experiences and perspectiv...

Introduction 2 Homelessness affects millions of people all over the world and has important physical and mental health implications that, very often, have been ignored when analyzing their condition. While many investigators have taken into consideration the labor status and social relationships of excluded populations (Castel, 2000), there is a third dimension that greatly impacts these people...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY This study addresses socio-demographic and clinical characteristics among homeless people in Switzerland admitted to inpatient care, the use of and pathways to inpatient care by this group and, the extent to which psychiatric disorders contribute to the risk of homelessness. METHODS Based on data of a psychiatric case register we analysed 16247 people consecutively refer...

Homeless people have multiple barriers in accessing health care services, and health care providers' negative attitudes toward homeless people have been suggested as part of the problem. Studies on dental students' attitudes toward homeless people are lacking, so our aim was to understand dental students' attitudes. Dental students under the supervision of faculty members spent one day per week...