We delimited our focus to respondents residing inoneof two of the 98 Danish municipalities. The two municipalities were selected based on statistics that show a percentage-wise comparable number of young persons in homelessness. However, in this chapter we do not elaborate further on municipal vari...
When the general public hears the word ‘homeless’ they usually think of the ‘visible homeless. These are the people who are begging on street corners, clearly intoxicated or severely mentally ill. This is actually a very small percentage of total homeless population in any area. The vast ma...
Changes in views of the characteristics of homeless people may also reflect an increasingly complex view of the homeless population. Respondents in the 2001 sample believed that a greater percentage of homeless people received public assistance, eventually found a permanent home, and had finished high ...
For descriptive analyses, categorical measures were reported as frequency and percentage, and continuous variables were described as mean, standard deviation (SD), first quartile, median, third quartile, minimum, and maximum. The matched cohorts were compared using SMD, with any value of 0.1 or ...
Although the percentage change in the proportion of females among all people experiencing unsheltered homelessness grew by 4.0%, the proportion of females among all veterans experiencing unsheltered homelessness grew by 26.3%.#These findings highlight the growing problem of unsheltered homelessness ...
All papers in which sex was given reported a higher percentage of males included in their analysis compared to females. When conducting quality analysis for risk of bias, 10 papers were assessed as poor, 61 papers were assessed as fair, and 12 papers were assessed as good quality. Narrative ...
This is a single-site study conducted at The Ohio State University, USA. The setting includes a drop-in center for YEH. Eligibility criteria {10} (1) Youth are between the ages of 15 to 24 years. Homeless youth is a term commonly used to describe homeless adolescents and young adults ...
Different ACF strategies were compared with current practice in different settings in which the prevalence of untreated active TB prior to intervention was varied, along with (a,b) the percentage of multi-drug/rifampicin resistant (MDR) TB among the untreated active TB cases, (c,d) the ...
In addition, a large percentage of participants experienced separation from a sibling (29.3%), father (16.3%), or mother (6.0%) due to family members’ detainment in jail for more than a year, which women reported as ‘moderately’ to ‘considerably’ upsetting (M = 3.72, 3.10, and...
(percentage relative importance = 17.12) as measured by the shortened revised version 3 of the UCLA Loneliness Scale and severity of substance use (percentage relative importance = 16.93) were the most important variables associated with any lifetime eviction and lifetime homelessness. ...