Discharge from psychiatric hospitals and prisons into homelessness
Nielssen, O. B., Stone, W., Jones, N. M., Challis, S., Nielssen, A., Elliott, G., ... & Large, M. M. (2018). Characteristics of people attending psychiatric clinics in inner Sydney homeless hostels . Medical Journal of Australia , 208 (4), 169-173. This research was mentioned during the podcast mentioned in an earlier post about rural and regional homelessness and mental health problems. I have tracked down this research and can see that it provides a study of people attending psychiatric clinics in inner Sydney homeless hostels. This is the abstract: Objective: To describe the characteristics of people attending mental health clinics at shelters for the homeless in inner city Sydney. Design: Retrospective review of medical records of homeless hostel clinic attenders. Setting: Mental health clinics located in three inner city homeless hostels. Participants: Consecutive series of clinic attenders, 21 July 2008 e 31 December 2016. Main outcome m...