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Evaluation of effects of housing first for homeless with drug use
and psychiatric problems. Håkan Källmén,and Mats Blid.
Preliminary results:
Introduction
Preliminary results show that former homeless who
received apartment still lives there at 6 months
follow-up. However, they did not report an
improved psychological well-being compared with
the control group and did not change their drug
use.
“Housing first” is a program to prevent
homelessness. It builds on a philosophy of harm
reduction and a view on homeless people as in
need of housing on same conditions as others.
Housing First can also be seen as an intervention
to make a more structured life and improve the
health and decrease drug use of the homeless.
Study aim
To explore if the housing first trial leads to 1.An exit
from homelessness 2. An improved psychological
wellbeing and 3. A decreased alcohol and drug use
Method
In this study 18 homeless people in Stockholm and
Helsingborg participated and were assigned for an
apartment in the housing first programme and they
were compared to 35 homeless people of the
same category housed in the staircase model
(control group).
We used a quasi-experimental non-equivalent
control group design with a pre-test and six posttests. Alcohol habits were assessed using the
AUDIT and drug use was assessed by DUDIT.
Psychological health was approximated by
measuring Locus of control and Sense of
coherence. Data about health care consumption,
criminality and incomes were collected through
registers.
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The exercise intervention used in this study also
assessed physical fitness
Håkan Källmen
STAD, Centre for Psychiatric Research,
Teknologatan 8E 113 60, Stockholm.
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone:+46 08 12345 501
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Håkan Källmén is Associate Professor at STAD, Center
for Psychiatry Research and the main investigator of
Housing First in Stockholm City.
Mats Blid is a senior lecturer in Social Work at
Miidsweden University in Östersund