Short-term impacts of housing first on homeless families: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial in Brno, Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14560/24:00137524

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10530789.2023.2246217" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10530789.2023.2246217</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10530789.2023.2246217" target="_blank" >10.1080/10530789.2023.2246217</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Short-term impacts of housing first on homeless families: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial in Brno, Czechia

Original language description

This article examines whether Housing First for homeless families reduces homelessness and use of emergency health services and improves security of tenure and caregivers' mental health. We present the quantitative data from a mixed-methods design. Homeless families with at least one child under 18, residing in Brno, Czechia were recruited for an open-label pragmatic randomized controlled trial. Families were stratified by number of children and randomized by lottery. Fifty treatment families received intensive case management, housing in municipal flats, and a risk-fund. One hundred control families received services as usual. Structured interviews were conducted at baseline, and six and twelve months after move-in. For statistical analysis, we used a non-parametric Fisher's exact test for binary variables, a Mann-Whitney U test for categorical and continuous variables, and a parametric negative binomial model for count variables. Treatment families had less homelessness (0, 2 months vs. 11 months) in the year after move-in, were twice as likely to have secure tenure, and showed lower psychological distress. The treatment cut annual emergency room visits in half, ambulance use by three fourths, and hospitalizations by two thirds. This intervention led to greater improvements in health outcomes than previous interventions involving families experiencing homelessness.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness

ISSN

1053-0789

e-ISSN

1573-658X

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

18.08.2023

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-12

UT code for WoS article

001051013500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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