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- Background: This study identified demographic factors and other characteristics of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) associated with an increased likelihood of being rehoused upon discharge from a transitional care program. Despite homelessness being a significant public health concern, our knowledge about which factors make PEH more likely to become rehoused is limited and oftentimes unclear.
Methods: We used a dataset containing data from 186 participants of the Durham Homeless Care Transitions program, a transitional care program, to conduct a cross-sectional study on the association between other individual characteristics, including demographics, self-efficacy score, mental healthcare status, and unmet basic needs, and being rehoused at discharge from the program.
Results: Within our bivariate analysis, we found that PEH with more unmet basic needs (p=0.088, CC=0.166) and those in need of mental healthcare (p=0.098, CC=0.151) were more likely to be rehoused at discharge from the program. Within our multivariable stepwise regression model, we found that PEH who are female (0.091), those who have lower self-perceived self-efficacy (0.067), and those who have fewer unmet basic needs (0.088) were more likely to be rehoused.
Conclusions: Our findings confirm some prior research in this area and contradict other research, while making a unique contribution by including unmet basic needs in the analysis, which proved to have a statistically significant association with being housed. The characteristics of PEH have intricately intertwined impacts on the likelihood of being rehoused after engagement with a transitional care program.
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