Housing First improves subjective quality of life among homeless adults with mental illness: 12-month findings from a randomized controlled trial in Vancouver, British Columbia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1245-1259

  Patterson, Michelle ^a   Moniruzzaman, Akm ^a   Palepu, Anita ^b   Zabkiewicz, Denise ^a   Frankish, Charles J ^b   Krausz, Michael ^b   Somers, Julian M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Housing first; Mental illness; Quality of life; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PUBLIC HOUSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880779668     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-013-0719-6     Document Type: Article

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