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Can we Predict Chronic Homelessness?

NCT01775683 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2013-01-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Homeless men and women suffer more illness and sooner death compared to housed people. Among the homeless, there is a group that suffers more illness than others. This group is usually homeless for several months, makes up a smaller proportion of homeless people and uses more resources from emergency shelters than other homeless people. Some have asked if a difference in thinking skills explains how people who are homeless for a long time need more help in getting and keeping housing compared to other homeless persons.

In this study, thinking skills that help a person plan and make decisions will be screened among those who have been homeless for a long time and those who were homeless for a short time. If there is a difference, then screening may change how future homeless people get the help they need.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claire Vayalumkal, BASc, MD · The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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