Citation

Link B, Phelan J, Bresnahan M, Stueve A, Moore R, Susser E. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1995; 65(3): 347-354.

Affiliation

Division of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7485420

Abstract

A 1990 household-based telephone survey of 1,507 people was followed up by surveying a subsample of those interviewed for the initial report. Results showed very high prevalence figures for homelessness, quite close to those found in the earlier survey. Moreover, using explicit and stringent definitions of literal homelessness and doubling up, most periods of homelessness were found to last for more than one month and, particularly with regard to literal homelessness, to involve serious deprivations and violent victimization.

Language: en