Obtaining representative samples of homeless persons: A two-city study

Toro, Paul A.; Wolfe, Susan M.; Bellavia, Charles W.; Thomas, David M.; Rowland, Laurenn L.; Daeschler, Chester V.; McCaskill, Pamela A.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199903)27:2<157::aid-jcop4>3.0.co;2-2

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“…Volunteering in shelters has been utilized in several studies (e.g., Fogel, 1994;Hill, 1991;Liebow, 1993;Rosenthal, 1994). Toro et al (1999) found that the refusal rate of people who are homeless was minimal when the researcher was known and trusted in the shelter. In addition to volunteer shifts, the researcher was in and out of the shelter at various times talking with the women and the staff, attending meetings, or reading the centralized computer database where all staff communicated each day's events.…”

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confidence: 74%

Coping with Chronic Stress: Leisure and Women Who Are Homeless

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2003

Leisure Sciences

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Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 74%

Coping with Chronic Stress: Leisure and Women Who Are Homeless

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“…Persons living only on the street without using any services were excluded from this study. The preliminary census showed that only 10% of homeless people are in this category, and it is not clear if they would be representative, since Toro et al 1 considered this an important factor, but the Hannappel, Calsyn, and Morse study showed that those using services were not different from those on the streets. 42 Results revealed that gender has an important impact on service utilization with regards to either mental or physical health.…”

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Health and Mental Health Care Utilization by Clients of Resources for Homeless Persons in Quebec City and Montreal, Canada: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study

Bonin

Fournier

Blais

et al. 2009

J Behav Health Serv Res

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The objective of this cohort study is to describe the service utilization by clients of homeless resources in Quebec and Montreal (Canada) over a 5-year period. Participants (N = 426) were recruited from a survey conducted in 1999 about clients' utilization of resources intended for homeless people in Montreal and Quebec. Data analyzed in this study were also drawn from three administrative databanks managed by the Quebec health care system. Results revealed that: (1) in general, mental health services are less used than physical health services; (2) generally, women, older persons, nonhomeless persons, and persons with mental health problems utilized proportionately more health services; and (3) participants involved in this study tend to continue using services over years in a system where health services are free. These findings are discussed in terms of long-term service utilization by clients of homeless resources.

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“…Prior to conducting the study, service facilities were contacted based on information from experts working with the homeless population in Birmingham (also see, Toro et al, 1999;Snow & Anderson, 1987). The main principles for consideration of these facilities were the location and size of the population served, mainly due to the differences in services offered from different sized facilities.…”

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“…First, posters providing information about the study were displayed in common areas; and second, members of staff also approached clients and asked whether they might be willing to take part in the research (see, . Similar procedures have been previously used (Akilu, 1992;Christian & Armitage, 2002;Christian et al, 2011;Toro et al, 1999). Potential participants, asking opting in, were then included in the interview schedule.…”

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“…Consistent with procedures outlined in the literature, homeless people were approached at tables in facilities, or they were randomly selected from daily registers (Toro et al, 1999; also see, Christian et al, 2011). All participants were told that their responses would be kept confidential, and that their assistance would not affect their future opportunities to take part in the services programmes.…”

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Intentions to Move from Homelessness to Social Inclusion: The Role of Participation Beliefs, Attitudes and Prior Behaviour

Christian

Abrams

Clapham

et al. 2016

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A key aim of homelessness services is not only to ensure that homeless people attain a secure home, but that this is a pathway to wider social inclusion. However, relatively little is known about the psychological elements that are essential for homeless people to engage with these pathways, nor whether these elements combine in ways that are predictable from previous research. In the present work, we examined both demographic and behavioural precursors, and contemporaneous psychological predictors, of a set of 49 homeless men's intentions to engage with a programme to move them toward long-term housing and social inclusion. Contrary to predictions based on subjective utility and rational choice theories, we found that normative pressure and did not directly predict the men's intentions. Instead, we found that intentions were predicted by their attitudes towards the services, and their specific beliefs about the benefits of particular courses of action (efficacy beliefs), and to a more restricted extent their experience (sociodemographics); and in those with high prior service use histories, only participatory beliefs guided future service use intentions. These findings suggest that it is important to focus on intentions as a highly relevant outcome of interventions, because beliefs about interventions can break the link between past behaviour or habitual service use and future service use. Such interventions may be particularly effective if they focus on the evaluative and efficacy-related aspects of behaviour over time and better understand the benefits the men evaluated the services as offering them.

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Obtaining representative samples of homeless persons: A two-city study

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Coping with Chronic Stress: Leisure and Women Who Are Homeless

Coping with Chronic Stress: Leisure and Women Who Are Homeless

Health and Mental Health Care Utilization by Clients of Resources for Homeless Persons in Quebec City and Montreal, Canada: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study

Intentions to Move from Homelessness to Social Inclusion: The Role of Participation Beliefs, Attitudes and Prior Behaviour

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