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Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Disorder, and Homelessness among People with Serious Mental Illness
Using a sample of community mental health clinic clients, this study explores the prevalence of three social determinants of health: food insecurity, homelessness, and neighborhood disorder, and assesses their associations with five outcomes of health, including mental health and physical health.
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Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: The Batman effect
This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disrupting routine and enhancing attention to the present moment.
PLOS Mental Health
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Older adults experiences of transitioning to housing following homelessness from a perspective of ontological security: A secondary analysis
A secondary analysis of qualitative research data using the theory of ontological security to explore the question: How do older adults experience trauma across the transition to housing following homelessness?
International Journal of Social Psychiatry cover
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Evaluating referrals to three urban specialist mental health services for people experiencing homelessness over a 1-year period
In this study, we explored the demand for the three specialist mental health services for people experiencing homelessness in Dublin by evaluating all referrals received over a 1-year period.
Tenant engagement - QMHC report cover
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Engaging lived-living experience tenants: Putting lived-living experience at the centre of housing design
This research examines the nature, experience, and relevance of tenant engagement for tenants living at Brisbane Common Ground, which is a single site model of permanent supportive housing.
Community Mental Health Journal
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Building community resilience through trauma-informed solutions: Lessons learned from a social accelerator in rural North Carolina
This study investigates the lessons learned from adapting the social accelerator model to address community-level trauma and build resilience in a rural setting.
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Should the city be for everyone? The relationship between worldviews, ideological attitudes, and the approval of hostile design
this research explores the psychological underpinnings of the approval of hostile design measures. Hostile design measures are interventions designed to deter undesirable behaviours and specific social groups in urban areas.
Primary care
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“Just a knife wound this week, nothing too painful”: An ethnographic exploration of how primary care patients experiencing homelessness view their own health and healthcare
Community health needs assessments (CHNA) involving qualitative techniques help tailor health services to the specific needs of the population groups for whom they are designed. This study used an ethnographic approach grounded in a social constructivist research paradigm to explore the perspectives of PEH attending a primary care and addiction service in Ireland on their priority health and healthcare needs.
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