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Risk and Protective Factors for Homelessness among OIF/OEF Veterans
Authors: Fairweather, Amy
Organization: Swords to Plowshares' Iraq Veteran Project
Publication Date: 2006
The following preliminary report briefly outlines the risk factors and transitional responses which will contribute to chronic homelessness among veterans of Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom or OIF) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom or OEF). This paper presents some of the findings of Swords to Plowshares’ Iraq Veteran Project – an effort to gather information about the issues facing new veterans and their families, to identify gaps in services and to make recommendations to i...
Tags: prevention; risk and protective factors; veterans
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Selling and Buying Sex: A Longitudinal Study of Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescence
Authors: Kaestle, C.E.
Journal Name: Prevention Science: The Offical Journal of the Society for Prevention Research
Publication Date: 2012
This study analyzes data from respondents to Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) who had not participated in sex trading for money or drugs in Wave I so that risk and protective factors for first initiations of selling or buying sex could be examined longitudinally. (Author)
Tags: sex ; co-occurring disorders; sexually transmitted infections; adolscent health; sexual abuse
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Iraq Veteran Project: Risk and Protective Factors for Homelessness Among OIF/OEF Veterans
Authors: Fairweather, Amy
Organization: Swords to Plowshares
Publication Date: 2006
The following preliminary report briefly outlines the risk factors and transitional responses which will contribute to chronic homelessness among veterans of Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom or OIF) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom or OEF). This paper presents some of the findings of Swords to Plowshares’ Iraq Veteran Project – an effort to gather information about the issues facing new veterans and their families, to identify gaps in services and to make recommendations to i...
Tags: veterans; chronic homelessness; risk factors
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Homelessness in Female-Headed Families:Childhood and Adult Risk and Protective Factors
Authors: Bassuk, Ellen; Buckner, John; Weinreb, Linda; Browne, Angela; Bassuk, Shari; Dawson, Ree; Perloff, Jennifer
Journal Name: American Journal of Public Health
Publication Date: 1997
OBJECTIVES: To identify risk and protective factors for family homelessness, a case-control study of homeless and low-income, never-homeless families, all female-headed, was conducted.
METHODS: Homeless mothers (n = 220) were enrolled from family shelters in Worcester, Mass. Low-income housed mothers receiving welfare (n = 216) formed the comparison group. The women completed an interview covering socioeconomic, social support, victimization, mental health, substance use,...
Tags: families; women; mothers; women's health; emergency shelters; mental health; housing
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Physical Violence Against Impoverished Women: a Longitudinal Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors
Authors: Wenzel, S. L.; Tucker, J. S.; Elliott, M. N.; Marshall, G. N.; Williamson, S. L.
Journal Name: Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Publication Date: 2004
Violence represents a significant threat to the health of impoverished women. Few studies have examined what characteristics might be associated with increased risk of violence or protection from physical violence directed at such women, although this information is important in informing violence prevention and intervention efforts. This is the first study to our knowledge that has prospectively examined, in representative probability samples of impoverished women, multiple risk...
Tags: adult; battered women; multivariate analysis; poverty/statistics & numerical data; single women
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Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Gang Involvement Among Urban African Amercian Adolescents
Authors: Li, X.; B. Stanton; R. Pack; C. Harris; L. Cottrell; J. Burns
Journal Name: Youth and Society
Publication Date: 2002
...controlling for age, gender, or risk involvement. This study provides evidence that gang membership itself may be associated with increased risk and ill-effects on psychological well-being and that strong family involvement and resiliency protect against gang involvement. (abstract from the article)
Tags: adolescents; blacks; resilience (personality); urban areas; violence; causes of homelessness; crime; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; youth
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Risk and Protective Factors for Adult and Child Hunger Among Low-income Housed and Homeless Female-headed Families
Authors: Wehler, Cheryl J. ; Weinreb, Linda F. ; Huntington, Nicholas; Scott, Richard; Hosmer, David; Fletcher, Kenneth; Goldberg, Robert; Gunderson, Craig
Journal Name: American Journal of Public Health
Publication Date: 2004
In this article, the authors sought to identify factors associated with adult or child hunger. Mothers who were low-income housed and homeless were interviewed about socioeconomic, psychosocial, health, and food sufficiency information. Multinomial logistic regression produced models predicting adult or child hunger. According to the article, predictors of adult hunger included mothers’ childhood sexual molestation and current parenting difficulties, or "hassles." The authors assert that ...
Tags: advocacy and policy; children; families; health; hunger; mental health
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Where Risks and Protective Factors Operate Differently: Homeless Sexual Minority Youth and Suicide Attempts
Authors: Walls, Eugene; Potter, Catherine; Van Leeuwen, James M.
Journal Name: Child Adolescent Social Work Journal
Publication Date: 2009
This study examines the relationships between social services custody, survival sex and suicide attempts in youth of all sexual orientations. Findings suggest differences between heterosexual and sexual minority youth in these areas.
Tags: LGBTQ youth; Suicide attempt; survival sex
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Risk/protective Factors Associated With Substance Use Among Runaway/homeless Youth Utilizing Emergency Shelter Services Nationwide
Authors: Thompson, Sanna
Journal Name: Substance Abuse
Publication Date: 2005
Rates of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among runaway/homeless youth are substantially higher than found among American high school students. To understand the risk and protective factors associated with substance use, this study (1) assessed cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among a national sample of runaway/homeless youth, (2) identified risk/protective factors associated with lifetime substance use, and (3) examined risk/protective ...
Tags: substance use; youth
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A prospective study of risk and protective factors for substance use among impoverished women living in temporary shelter settings in Los Angeles County
Authors: Tucker, Joan S; D’Amico, Elizabeth J.; Wenzel, Suzanne L; Golinelli, Daniela; Elliott, Marc N; Williamson, Stephanie
Journal Name: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Publication Date: 2005
Alcohol and drug use are significant public health problems facing
homeless women, but few prospective studies have examined risk and protective factors for substance use in this population. This 6-month prospective study identified psychosocial, behavioral, and economic predictors of drinking to intoxication, crack use, and marijuana use in a probability sample of 402 women living in temporary shelter settings in Los Angeles County with a simple majority of homeless reside...
Tags: substance use
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Factors Associated With Homelessness of Adolescents Under Supervision of the Youth Protection System
Authors: Robert, Marie; Pauze, Robert; Fournier, Louise
Journal Name: Journal of adolescence
Publication Date: 2005
...of two groups of youths under the supervision of the youth protection system, according to the presence or absence of periods of homelessness. The results throw light on the factors underlying the shift from "at risk" to "homeless," showing that youths with experience of homelessness are more likely to have been placed in substitute home environments, have experienced significant relationship difficulties with one of their parents (deterioration of the parent/youth relati...
Tags: adolescents; homelessness; runaways; risk factors; causes of homelessness; youth
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Factors associated with homelessness of adolescents under supervision of the youth protection system
Authors: Robert, Marie; Pauzé, Robert; Fournier, Louise
Journal Name: Journal of Adolescence
Publication Date: 2005
...of two groups of youths under the supervision of the youth protection system, according to the presence or absence of periods of homelessness. The results throw light on the factors underlying the shift from “at risk” to “homeless”, showing that youths with experience of homelessness are more likely to have been placed in substitute home environments, have experienced significant relationship difficulties with one of their parents (deterioration of the parent/youth relati...
Tags: roots of homelessness; child care services; homeless youth; hidden homeless; visible homelessness
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Risk Factors for Major Violence Among Homeless Women
Authors: Wenzel, Suzanne; Leake, Barbara; Gelberg, Lillian
Journal Name: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Publication Date: 2001
...or object, beaten up, choked, burned, or threatened or harmed with a knife or gun). One third of the women experienced major violence during the year before they were interviewed. Greater severity of homelessness, engaging in subsistence activities, and victimization during childhood were significant predictors of major violence. Analyses suggested that drug dependence might influence victimization risk through sex trade. Major violence against homeless women requires attention from mu...
Tags: women; violence; prevention; risk and protective factors
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Risk Factors for Homelessness Among People with Psychiatric Disorders
Authors: Odell, S.; Commander, M.
Journal Name: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Publication Date: 2000
Background: Although it is widely accepted that rates of severe mental illness amongst single homeless people are high, little is known about the reasons these individuals become homeless. This study aimed to identify risk factors for homelessness among people with psychotic disorders.
Methods: A matched case-control study of homeless and never homeless people with psychotic disorders was carried out, with respondents recruited from mental health services (N = 39 pairs). Data were...
Tags: mental health; risk and protective factors; prevention
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Individual and Environmental Protective Factors for Risky Sexual Behavior among Homeless Youth: An Exploration of Gender Differences
Authors: Trevendale, Heather D.; Lightfoot, Marguerita; Slocum, Suzanne L.
Journal Name: AIDS and Behavior
Publication Date: 2008
The goal of the current study was to identify potential individual and environmental protective factors for sex risk behavior among homeless youth. We explored gender differences in the prediction of unprotected sex and number of sex partners. Data were collected from 192 sexually active, homeless youth who were 14-21 years old. High rates of sex risk behavior were reported. Significant gender differences were found in STD rates with 19% of females and 2% of males r...
Tags: youth; gender; health; sexual health; STDs; mental health
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Promoting Resilience and Protective Factors in the Children's Fund
Authors: Evans, Ruth; Pinnock, Katherine
Journal Name: Journal of Children and Poverty
Publication Date: 2007
This paper is based on findings from a large qualitative dataset of interviews conducted with children and their parents or caregiver who accessed Children's Fund services as part of National Evaluation of the Children's Fund research. Drawing on the notion of young people's trajectories, the paper discusses how Children's Fund services support children's and young people's pathways towards greater social inclusion.
Tags: user views; young people; income, employment & education; government benefits; social exclusion
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Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Indigent Urban Adults With No History of Psychotic Illness: A Case-Control Study
Authors: Caton, Carol; Hasin, Deborah; Shrout, Patrick; Opler, Lewis; Hirshfield, Sabina; Dominguez, Boanerges; Felix, Alan
Journal Name: American Journal of Public Health
Publication Date: 2000
Objectives: This study identified risk factors for homelessness among indigent urban adults without dependent children and with no history of psychotic illness.
Methods: We conducted a matched case-control study, stratified by sex, of 200 newly homeless men and women and 200 indigent men and women with no history of homelessness. Trained interviewers employed standardized research instruments to probe three domains of risk factors, symptom severity and substance...
Tags: prevention; risk and protective factors
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Self-Reported Risk Factors for Aids Among Homeless Youth
Authors: Johnson, Timothy P. ; Aschkenasy, Jeannie R.; Herbers, Mary Ruth; Gillenwater, Stephen A.
Journal Name: AIDS education and prevention
Publication Date: 1996
This study assessed HIV risk behaviors in a sample of homeless youth in a large urban area and examined factors associated with these behaviors. Self-reported behaviors were assessed via interviews with 196 homeless youth in Chicago in all 10 urban shelters serving this group and in 5 street locations. Overall, 83.7% reported at least one of these risk factors: multiple sex partners; high-risk partners; inconsistent condom use; history of sexually transmitt...
Tags: homeless youth; risk factors; Health Problems and Poverty; Sexual/Reproductive Care; youth
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Risk Factors for Recurrent Lower Extremity Cellulitis in a U.S. Veterans Medical Center Population
Authors: Lewis, Suzanne; Peter, Garnet; Gomez-Marin, Orlando; Bisno, Alan
Journal Name: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Publication Date: 2006
BACKGROUND: Despite the frequency of recurrent acute cellulitis of the lower extremities, factors associated with this infection have not been previously assessed in a case-control study among patients admitted to U.S. hospitals.
METHODS: We compared the clinical characteristics of 47 patients with those of 94 age- and sex-matched control subjects admitted to the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
RESULTS: In a multivariate analysis, two physical factors, lower extremity edem...
Tags: veterans; health; prevention; risk and protective factors
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HIV Risk Behavior and HIV Testing: A Comparison of Rates and Associated Factors Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents in Two Cities
Authors: De Rosa, Christine; Montgomery, Susanne; Hyde, Justeen; Iverson, Ellen; Kipke, Michele
Journal Name: AIDS Education and Prevention
Publication Date: 2001
.... Significantly more Los Angeles youths (78%) reported testing than did San Diego youths (52%; p < .001). Multivariable analyses controlling for risk behaviors, knowing someone with HIV, and contact with outreach workers indicated that the higher rates of these factors in Los Angeles did not account for the difference in testing rates between the cities. Youths in Los Angeles were still 1.85 times as likely to be tested as San Diego youths (p < .001), possibly a result of differin...
Tags: health; HIV/AIDS; youth; runaways; prevention; risk and protective factors