@article{ref1,
title="Trauma experience among homeless female veterans: correlates and impact on housing, clinical, and psychosocial outcomes",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2012",
author="Tsai, Jack and Rosenheck, Robert Alan and Decker, Suzanne E. and Desai, Rani A. and Harpaz-Rotem, Ilan",
volume="25",
number="6",
pages="624-632",
abstract="This study examined lifetime exposure to traumatic events as reported by 581 homeless female veterans enrolled in a Homeless Women Veterans Program across 11 sites to characterize the types of trauma they experienced; their correlation with baseline characteristics; and their association with housing, clinical outcomes, and psychosocial functioning over a 1-year treatment period. Almost all participants endorsed multiple types and episodes of traumatic events. Among the most common were having someone close experience a serious or life-threatening illness (82%) and rape (67%). Exploratory factor analysis revealed 6 potential trauma categories: being robbed, experiencing accident or disasters, illness or death of others, combat, sexual assault, and physical assault. At baseline, trauma from sexual assault was associated with more days homeless (β = .18, p < .001), trauma from accidents or disasters was associated with poorer physical health (β = -.23, p < .001), and trauma from being robbed was related to greater use of drugs (β = .22, p < .001). Trauma reported at baseline, however, was not predictive of 1-year outcomes, suggesting type and frequency of trauma does not negatively affect the housing gains homeless women veterans can achieve through homeless services.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.21750",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21750"
}