PMID: 8985444Dec 2, 1996Paper

Children in homeless families in Melbourne: health status and use of health services

The Medical Journal of Australia
D EfronF Jewell

Abstract

To determine the prevalence of health and behaviour problems in a sample of children in homeless families and of psychological problems in their parents, and to assess the use of health services by homeless families. A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based prevalence survey. Supported accommodation provided by a welfare service in Melbourne between May 1994 and June 1995. 51 children from 31 families soon after housing crises. More than one-third of all children had total behaviour problems scores in the "deviant" range (i.e., requiring mental health referral). Intellectual disability/developmental delay, skin problems, vision problems, recurrent headache, and asthma or other breathing problems were more prevalent in these homeless children than in a large Australian normative population. Their mothers scored higher than a large normative sample on the mental health questionnaire, most markedly for "anxiety-insomnia", "severe depression" and total score. Cost of treatment and transport difficulties were seen as barriers to using health care services. Australian health-care practitioners should be aware of the health and health service access problems of children in homeless families, and work to minimise their physical, emotiona...Continue Reading

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Mar 31, 2000·Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine·T D Matte, D E Jacobs
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Mar 1, 2012·Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine·Carolyn Stephens
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