Housing Arrangements for ACCESS Program Clients
Instrument name: Housing Arrangements for ACCESS Program Clients| To obtain the instrument: |
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Rosenheck, MD Yale School of Medicine, NEPEC (182 950 Campbell Ave. West Haven, CT 06516 robert.rosenheck@yale.edu |
Citation: Mares, A.S. and Rosenheck, R. (2004). One-year housing arrangements among homeless adults with serious mental illness in the ACCESS program. Psychiatric Services, 55, 5, 566-574. Click here for text
Purpose: To study the living arrangements of formerly homeless adults with mental illness 12 months after enrolling in case management services.
Population: homeless adults with serious mental illness
Publication date(s): 2004
Domain: Housing status
Administration: structured interview
Reliability and validity information: None reported
Item description/response options: Six-category classification system of living arrangements based on two questions: (1) # of nights spent in 12 different residential settings in the past 60 days; and (2) how often client saw persons whom they felt close to during the past 60 days.
Description of the original study: This study examined the various living arrangements among formerly homeless adults with mental illness 12 months after they received intensive case management services in the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports (ACCESS) program. Living arrangements 12 months after program entry were classified into six types on the basis of residential setting, the presence of others in the home, and stability (living in the same place for 60 days). Differences in perceived housing quality, unmet housing needs, and overall satisfaction were compared across living arrangements by using analysis of covariance. After the analysis adjusted for potentially confounding factors, living independently was positively associated with satisfaction of life overall, but it was not associated with the perception that the quality of housing was better or that there was less of a need for permanent housing.
