ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE HOMELESS/HOMELESS MENTALLY ILL

在一项全国性的随机数字拨号电话调查中， 受访者对无家可归者/无家可归者精神病患者的态度和信念 被问及他们是否曾经无家可归。令人惊讶的206(13.7%) 报告说，他们一生中的某个时候曾无家可归； (11.2%)表示成年后无家可归。此外，这些事件 自我报告的无家可归现象似乎是正确的。自我报告的无家可归者 正如预期的那样，与贫困、教育水平和 精神病史。此外，我们还进行了一次简短的 重新采访自我报告的无家可归者案例的一个子样本，发现 绝大多数人当时正经历着严重的困难 据报无家可归。我们建议跟进这一意外和 通过对受访者进行深入采访，得出了具有挑衅性的发现 据报道，成年后无家可归。我们还将重新采访两位对比 来自知识、态度和信念研究的小组(N=280)，一个 由从未无家可归但处于高危状态的人组成 一个是无家可归，另一个是无家可归风险较低的人。 因为很少有专门针对以前无家可归的人的研究 这项研究提供了一个机会来了解人们的许多 无家可归的经历。具体地说，该研究将提供 对老年人的社会和心理健康特征的认识 无家可归的人，他们是如何无家可归的，他们无家可归的经历是什么 是这样的，他们是如何被重新安置的，他们现在的住房是什么 情况就像是。从研究中获得的知识将有助于让博德 社会政策以及旨在帮助无家可归者的干预措施 得到重新安置。

In a nationwide random digit dial telephone survey of peoples' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about the homeless/homeless mentally ill, respondents were asked if they had ever been homeless. A surprising 206 (13.7%) reported that they had been homeless at some time in their lives; 169 (11.2%) reported homelessness in adulthood. Moreover, these incidents of self-reported homelessness appear to be valid. Self-reported homelessness correlates as expected with variables like poverty, educational level and a history of mental hospitalization. In addition we conducted a brief reinterview of a subsample of self- reported homeless cases and found that the vast majority were experiencing severe hardship at the time they reported being homeless. We propose to follow-up this unexpected and provocative finding by conducting in-depth interviews with respondents who reported homelessness as adults. We will also reinterview two comparison groups (N=280 each) from the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs study, one consisting of people who have never been homeless but who are at high risk of becoming homeless and another that is at low risk for homelessness. Because there are few studies focused specifically on the formerly homeless this study offers the opportunity to learn a great deal about people's experience with homelessness. Specifically, the study will provide knowledge about the social and mental health characteristics of formerly homeless people, how they became homeless, what their homeless experience was like, how they became rehoused, and what their current housing situation is like. Knowledge gained from the study will help inform broad social policy as well as interventions designed to help homeless people become rehoused.