Trajectories of recovery among homeless adults with mental illness who participated in a randomised controlled trial of Housing First: a longitudinal, narrative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study used longitudinal, narrative data to identify trajectories of recovery among homeless adults with mental illness alongside the factors that contribute to positive, negative, mixed or neutral trajectories over time. We expected that participants who received Housing First (HF) would describe more positive trajectories of recovery than those who were assigned to Treatment as Usual (TAU; no housing or support provided through the study).

Design

Narrative interview data were collected from participants at baseline and 18 months after random assignment to HF or TAU.

Setting

Participants were sampled from the community in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Participants

Fifty-four participants were randomly and purposively selected from the larger tria

SUBMITTER: Patterson ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773649 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature