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Filter by:Recovery housing is a substance-free group home for those exiting drug and alcohol treatment. Individuals live in a recovery-focused environment with others traveling the same journey. Ohio Recovery Housing (ORH) creates and maintains standards of excellence for recovery housing in the state. Each house decides how it operates, with four different "levels" of housing available. These environments have the potential to help build a strong foundation in recovery to improve health, employment, and housing outcomes. ORH and LEO will launch a quasi-experimental study to measure the impact of recovery housing for individuals with substance use disorders. The design relies on variation in the availability of program spots to identify effects. Invitations to join a home will come from a waitlist. As the length of the waitlist is unrelated to applicant characteristics, movement off the waitlist can be considered essentially random. The research team will compare those who receive services to those who do not. The researchers hypothesize that those who participate in recovery housing will have improved health, employment, and housing outcomes compared to individuals who do not receive recovery housing services.
Use of acute care services (e.g., hospitalizations, Emergency Department visits) contributes substantially to the cost of healthcare for Veterans. Homelessness is a robust social determinant of super utilization of acute care. The goal of this project is to test if Peer Specialists trained in Whole Health Coaching can reduce homeless Veterans' frequent use of acute care.
This study aims to understand the comparative effectiveness of two PSH models (PB-PSH and SS-PSH) on quality of life and COVID-19 related health behaviors by following for 6 months a cohort of 800 PEH who have been placed in either PB (n=400) or SS (n=400). In a natural observational experiment, participants will complete 6 monthly mobile-based questionnaires exploring quality of life including physical, mental, social, and housing/environmental health, COVID-19 prevention practices (i.e., handwashing, social distancing, face covering), and past-30-day healthcare utilization. A sub-sample of 40 participants living in both PB-PSH and SS-PSH will be qualitatively interviewed longitudinally to help contextualize quantitative findings. Focus groups will also be conducted with providers of PSH and qualitative interviews will be conducted with other key stakeholders to understand perspectives on the challenges of implementing and sustaining COVID-19 related prevention practices while maintaining a continuity of care.
This project will examine whether a health promotion campaign using community organizing and joint advocacy by a coalition of tenants, health providers, social service agencies and advocates can lead to improvements in building conditions and health in social housing.
The rationale underlying this project is the fact that HA is a very common compensatory interven¬tion within municipality health care, undertaken to support an independent living in the own home. In addition, MD are frequently prescribed and used among HA clients in order to compensate for declined body functions. In spite of this, knowledge of their effects for the individual and the society is still scarce. In particular, systematic, evidence-based strategies based on clear-cut conceptual definitions and descriptions of procedures are lacking. Such strategies are crucial in order to evaluate the effects of HA and MD. In addition, longterm cost-effectiveness evaluations are crucial for policy implementation. The overarching aim is to investigate outcomes of HA on aspects of home and health for sub-groups of persons with disabilities. The specific aims are to: - Investigate the effects of HA on home and health related outcomes, i.e. usability, fear of falling, activity/participation and health-related quality of life for different subgroups of persons, e.g. MD users and non MD-users - Investigate the use of a new practice strategy for HA on home and health related outcomes for subgroups of persons with disabilities in terms of differences between municipalities - Investigate societal level outcomes of HA and MD, i.e. costs and quality adjusted life years - Gain a deeper understanding of the processes behind changes in outcomes We hypothesise that using a structure strategy for housing adaptation and mobility devices case management in ordinary practice in Swedish municipalities increase activity, participation, the usability of the home, and reduces societal costs.