Mental Ill Health in Homeless Women: A Review

Prevalence of mental disorders among people who are homeless: an umbrella review

“…At the end of this stage, we removed 826 citations due to non-compliance with our criteria and evaluated full texts of the remaining 22 citations. Seven articles were excluded at this stage, and we retained 15 articles in this review (Ayano, Tesfaw, & Shumet, 2019;Ayano, Tsegay, Abraha, & Yohannes, 2019;Bassuk, Richard, & Tsertsvadze, 2015;Burra, Stergiopoulos, & Rourke, 2009;Depp, Vella, Orff, & Twamley, 2015;Duke & Searby, 2019;Embleton, Mwangi, Vreeman, Ayuku, & Braitstein, 2013;Ennis, Roy, & Topolovec-Vranic, 2015;Fazel, Khosla, Doll, & Geddes, 2008;Folsom & Jeste, 2002;Hodgson, Shelton, van den Bree, & Los, 2013;Parks, Stevens, & Spence, 2007;Schreiter et al, 2017;Smartt et al, 2019;Spence, Stevens, & Parks, 2004). The included articles consisted of seven meta-analytic reviews (Ayano, Tesfaw, et al, 2019;Ayano, Tsegay, et al, 2019;Bassuk et al, 2015;Depp et al, 2015;Embleton et al, 2013;Fazel et al, 2008;Schreiter et al, 2017), and eight non-quantitative reviews (Burra et al, 2009;Duke & Searby, 2019;Ennis et al, 2015;Folsom & Jeste, 2002;Hodgson et al, 2013;Parks et al, 2007;Smartt et al, 2019;Spence et al, 2004).…”

“…The number of primary studies included in the respective reviews ranged from 10 to 50. In addition, the evaluation of the methodological quality (please see Supplementary file) found seven reviews with medium quality (Embleton et al, 2013;Ennis et al, 2015;Folsom & Jeste, 2002;Hodgson et al, 2013;Parks et al, 2007;Schreiter et al, 2017;Spence et al, 2004) and eight reviews with high methodological quality (Ayano, Tesfaw, et al, 2019;Ayano, Tsegay, et al, 2019;Bassuk et al, 2015;Burra et al, 2009;Depp et al, 2015;Duke & Searby, 2019;Fazel et al, 2008;Smartt et al, 2019). The overall prevalence of schizophrenia ranged from 1% to 45%.…”

“…The study populations in this review were homeless individuals with diverse characteristics, as identified in different study samples. The sample size among studies ranged from eight to 326,073 (Duke & Searby, 2019;Hodgson et al, 2013). Three reviews focused on adult participants who were homeless (Burra et al, 2009;Depp et al, 2015;Spence et al, 2004).…”

“…One review included primary studies with youth participants aged from 15 to 24 years (Hodgson et al, 2013). Moreover, one review focused on studies with women participants only (Duke & Searby, 2019). In many samples, racial and ethnic minorities were over-represented within the homeless groups compared to the general population (Spence et al, 2004).…”

“…In many samples, racial and ethnic minorities were over-represented within the homeless groups compared to the general population (Spence et al, 2004). The study participants were recruited from multiple sources, including homeless shelters, social services, temporary residential facilities, downtown locations, suburban areas, healthcare facilities, community locations, and streets (Bassuk et al, 2015;Burra et al, 2009;Duke & Searby, 2019;Embleton et al, 2013;Ennis et al, 2015;Fazel et al, 2008;Folsom & Jeste, 2002;Parks et al, 2007;Schreiter et al, 2017;Smartt et al, 2019;Spence et al, 2004).…”