Homeless and matched housed adolescents: A comparative study of psychopathology
Homeless and matched housed adolescents: A comparative study of psychopathology
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10.1207/s15374424jccp2703_7
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1998-10-01
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Wolfe, SM
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McCaskill, PA;Toro, PA;Wolfe, SM
使用儿童诊断访谈时间表（DISC）比较了来自底特律大都会区7个县6个收容所的118名无家可归青少年（12-17岁）的概率样本与118名被收容青少年的游行样本，DISC根据精神疾病诊断和统计手册（第3版，rev.; DSM-III-R;美国精神病学协会，1987）标准和简明症状量表（BSI）。在居住的对照组的青少年在年龄，性别，种族和邻里特征相匹配。包括控制10个风险和弹性因素在内的分析表明，无家可归者表现出更多的破坏性行为障碍和酗酒或对DISC的依赖，以及BSI上更高的成瘾水平。在药物滥用或情感障碍方面没有显著的组间差异，精神障碍在两组中都很罕见。这种调查结果的模式并不完全符合对无家可归青年的流行定型观念，也不完全符合许多现有的研究（这些研究往往没有包括适当的比较组）。
Compared a probability sample of 118 homeless adolescents (ages 12-17) from 6 shelters from throughout the 7-county Detroit metropolitan area to a marched sample of 118 housed adolescents using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC), which yields diagnoses based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.; DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987) criteria, and the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Adolescents in the housed comparison group were matched on age, sex, race, and neighborhood characteristics. Analyses, including ones controlling for a set of 10 risk and resilience factors, indicated that the homeless showed more disruptive behavior disorders and alcohol abuse or dependence on the DISC and greater levels of symptomatology on the BSI. There were no significant group differences on drug abuse or affective disorders, and psychotic disorders were rare in both groups. This pattern of findings is not entirely consistent with popular stereotypes about homeless youth nor with many existing studies (which have often failed to include an appropriate comparison group).