Housing Matters: Final Results From the Cmhs Housing Initiative. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.
Description:
This presentation summarizes outcome results from the CMHS Housing Initiative for Persons with Serious Mental Illness, the largest
study of supported housing to date. Dr. Rog will begin the presentation with a brief overview of the Initiative, a study comparing supported housing to a range
of housing approaches in the traditional residential continuum in six sites. The results of cross-site analyses using hierarchical linear modeling for 3, 6, 12,
and 18-month data will be presented for several outcomes including residential stability, mental health functioning, psychiatric hospitalization, and consumer
empowerment. Preliminary results suggest that "housing matters," as both residents of supported housing and other housing approaches show equivalent
increases in residential stability and fewer psychiatric hospitalizations after entering housing. Moderator variables have also been included in the outcome
models. Dr. Rog will discuss how this has revealed several interesting subgroup effects that do not seem to vary by housing type. The implications of these
results for practice and further research will be noted. [abstract]
Type of Resource:
Journal
Publication Date:
2002
Location:
Philadelphia