The Characteristics and Needs of Sheltered Homeless and Low-Income Housed Mothers

Bassuk, Ellen L.; Buckner, John C.; Browne, Angela; Salomón, A.; Bassuk, Shari S.

doi:10.1001/jama.1996.03540080062031

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“…Lifetime prevalence rates of physical IPV for women on welfare range from 29 to 74% (Barusch, Taylor, & Derr, 1999;Colten, Cosenza, & Allard, 1996;Lloyd & Taluc, 1999;Tolman & Rosen, 2001), whereas lifetime prevalence rates of physical IPV in the general population range from 22 to 31% (Collins et al, 1999;Klein, Campbell, Soler, & Ghez, 1997;Straus & Gelles, 1990;Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Studies also suggest that women on welfare are particularly vulnerable to severe IPV, such as having been punched, kicked, and/or threatened with a weapon (Bassuk et al, 1996;Lloyd & Taluc, 1999).…”

Section: Welfare Receipt and Experience Of Ipvmentioning

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Intimate Partner Violence, Welfare Receipt, and Health Status of Low‐Income African American Women: A Lifecourse Analysis

Yoshihama

Hammock

Horrocks

2006

American J of Comm Psychol

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Although the association among intimate partner violence (IPV), welfare receipt, and health status has been well-established, little is known about the temporal sequencing of these events. In a random sample of low-income African American women in an urban Midwestern county, lifecourse data about IPV and welfare receipt were obtained using the Life His- DeMarco, 1988), along with data about mental and physical health status. Controlling for relevant factors, longitudinal analyses found that previous experience of IPV increased women's odds of receiving welfare benefits in a given year, but previous welfare receipt did not. Cumulative IPV, but not cumulative welfare receipt, was associated with current and past-year health problems. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that IPV leads women to turn to welfare assistance, and that compromised physical and mental health due to past cumulative IPV interferes with women's gainful employment.KEY WORDS: intimate partner violence; health; mental health; welfare; lifecourse.The nested ecological model (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) has been used to understand the relationships among the multiple and interacting personal, situational, and sociocultural factors that contribute to women's experiences, such as intimate partner violence (IPV), welfare receipt, and poor health

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confidence: 99%

Intimate Partner Violence, Welfare Receipt, and Health Status of Low‐Income African American Women: A Lifecourse Analysis

Yoshihama

Hammock

Horrocks

2006

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Given that gambling activity requires money to participate and that homeless people have a very low disposable income compared to the national average (Bassuk, Weinreb, Buckner, et al, 1996;Bose & Hwang, 2002), this would mean that for most homeless people, their disposable income for gambling would be used up much quicker than other non-homeless individuals. Given that a number of the criteria on problem gambling screens concern the financial consequences, it means that endorsement of these items would be much more likely for homeless people.…”

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The Relationship Between Gambling and Homelessness: A Commentary on Sharman et al. (2014)

Griffiths

2014

J Gambl Stud

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The relationship between problem gambling and homelessness is a little studied area in the gambling studies field. A recent study in the Journal of Gambling Studies by Sharman, Dreyer, et al (2014) is the first quantitative study in Great Britain on this interesting and important topic. In this context, the study is to be commended and provides an empirical benchmark on which other studies can build. The study reported a problem gambling prevalence rate of 11.6% and is significantly higher than the problem gambling rate of the general population in Great Britain (which is less than 1%). However, given the political sensitivity surrounding the expansion of bookmakers in the UK, the study needs further contextualization otherwise the findings of such studies may be used by anti-gambling lobby groups to serve their own political agendas. While it is good that such an area has been empirically investigated in Great Britain, this paper briefly (i) places the issue of problem gambling among the homeless into the wider context of problems among the homeless more generally (particularly in relation to mental health problems and other addictive behaviors), (ii) highlights some of the methodological problems and weaknesses of the study, and (iii) notes a number of factual errors made in the paper.

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“…We created a composite measure of housing instability, which we defined as 92 persons per bedroom (total number of people living in the household including children/number of bedrooms in the household), 33 or moving frequently (eight or more moves in the past 2 years, excluding people who were currently in school, college or graduate school) or currently occupying a place without paying rent or money as a proxy for living doubled up. [1][2][3][4][5] For the latter component, participants were asked, "Is the home where you live: owned or being bought by you (or someone else in the household), rented for money, or occupied without paying rent or money?" Participants who reported living in a home that was occupied without paying rent or money were considered as living doubled up.…”

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“…Definitions include living doubled up with family or friends or moving frequently due to an inability to pay rent, living in overcrowded conditions, or spending more than 50 % of household income on rent. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Housing instability, a growing public health problem, has received national attention because of the lack of affordable low-income housing, the foreclosure crisis, and rising unemployment. 7, 8 The number of people living doubled up (one definition of housing instability) increased by 5 % from 4.6 million in 2005 to 4.8 million adults in 2008.…”

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Housing Instability and Incident Hypertension in the CARDIA Cohort

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Housing instability, a growing public health problem, may be an independent environmental risk factor for hypertension, but limited prospective data exist. We sought to determine the independent association of housing instability in early adulthood (year 5, 1990-1991) and incident hypertension over the subsequent 15 years of follow-up (years 7, 10, 15, and 20) in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study (N=5,115). Because causes of inadequate housing and its effects on health are thought to vary by race and sex, we hypothesized that housing instability would exert a differential effect on incident hypertension by race and sex. At year 5, all CARDIA participants were asked about housing and those free of hypertension were analyzed (N=4,342). We defined housing instability as living in overcrowded housing, moving frequently, or living doubled up. Of the 4,342 participants, 8.5 % were living in unstable housing. Across all participants, housing instability was not associated with incident hypertension (incidence rate ratio (IRR), 1.1; 95 % CI, 0.9-1.5) after adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic status, substance use, social factors, body mass index, and study site. However, the association varied by race and sex (p value for interaction, G0.001). Unstably housed white women had a hypertension incidence rate 4.7 times (IRR, 4.7; 95 % CI, 2.4-9.2) that of stably housed white women in adjusted analysis. There was no association among white men, black women, or black men. These findings suggest that housing instability may be a more important risk factor among white women, and may act independently or as a marker for other psychosocial stressors (e.g., stress from intimate partner violence) leading to development of hypertension. Studies that examine the role of these psychosocial stressors in development of hypertension risk among unstably housed white women are needed.

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The Characteristics and Needs of Sheltered Homeless and Low-Income Housed Mothers

Cited by 301 publications

References 26 publications

Intimate Partner Violence, Welfare Receipt, and Health Status of Low‐Income African American Women: A Lifecourse Analysis

Intimate Partner Violence, Welfare Receipt, and Health Status of Low‐Income African American Women: A Lifecourse Analysis

The Relationship Between Gambling and Homelessness: A Commentary on Sharman et al. (2014)

Housing Instability and Incident Hypertension in the CARDIA Cohort

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