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Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation

This study aimed to identify and compare major areas of met and unmet needs reported by 455 homeless or recently housed individuals recruited from emergency shelters, temporary housing, and permanent housing in Quebec (Canada). Mixed methods, guided by the Maslow framework, were used. Basic needs we...

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Autores principales: Fleury, Marie-Josée, Grenier, Guy, Sabetti, Judith, Bertrand, Karine, Clément, Michèle, Brochu, Serge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7808646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33444366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245088
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author Fleury, Marie-Josée
Grenier, Guy
Sabetti, Judith
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Clément, Michèle
Brochu, Serge
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description This study aimed to identify and compare major areas of met and unmet needs reported by 455 homeless or recently housed individuals recruited from emergency shelters, temporary housing, and permanent housing in Quebec (Canada). Mixed methods, guided by the Maslow framework, were used. Basic needs were the strongest needs category identified, followed by health and social services (an emergent category), and safety; very few participants expressed needs in the higher-order categories of love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. The only significant differences between the three housing groups occurred in basic needs met, which favored permanent housing residents. Safety was the only category where individuals reported more unmet than met needs. The study results suggested that increased overall access to and continuity of care with family physicians, MD or SUD clinicians and community organizations for social integration should be provided to help better these individuals. Case management, stigma prevention, supported employment programs, peer support and day centers should particularly be more widely implemented as interventions that may promote a higher incidence of met needs in specific needs categories.
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spelling pubmed-78086462021-02-02 Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation Fleury, Marie-Josée Grenier, Guy Sabetti, Judith Bertrand, Karine Clément, Michèle Brochu, Serge PLoS One Research Article This study aimed to identify and compare major areas of met and unmet needs reported by 455 homeless or recently housed individuals recruited from emergency shelters, temporary housing, and permanent housing in Quebec (Canada). Mixed methods, guided by the Maslow framework, were used. Basic needs were the strongest needs category identified, followed by health and social services (an emergent category), and safety; very few participants expressed needs in the higher-order categories of love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. The only significant differences between the three housing groups occurred in basic needs met, which favored permanent housing residents. Safety was the only category where individuals reported more unmet than met needs. The study results suggested that increased overall access to and continuity of care with family physicians, MD or SUD clinicians and community organizations for social integration should be provided to help better these individuals. Case management, stigma prevention, supported employment programs, peer support and day centers should particularly be more widely implemented as interventions that may promote a higher incidence of met needs in specific needs categories. Public Library of Science 2021-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7808646/ /pubmed/33444366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245088 Text en © 2021 Fleury et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation
title_full Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation
title_fullStr Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation
title_full_unstemmed Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation
title_short Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation
title_sort met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: a mixed-method investigation
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7808646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33444366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245088
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