Associations of housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods with subsequent mental disorders during adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Youth in high-poverty neighborhoods have high rates of emotional problems. Understanding neighborhood influences on mental health is crucial for designing neighborhood-level interventions.

Objective

To perform an exploratory analysis of associations between housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods and subsequent mental disorders during adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

The Moving to Opportunity Demonstration from 1994 to 1998 randomized 4604 volunteer public housing families with 3689 children in high-poverty neighborhoods into 1 of 2 housing mobility intervention groups (a low-poverty voucher group vs a traditional voucher group) or a control group. The low-poverty voucher group (n=1430) received vouchers to mo

SUBMITTER: Kessler RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4100467 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature