Homeless men in London. I. Demographic findings in a lodging house sample
| Autor: | I. C. Lodge Patch |
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| Rok vydání: | 1971 |
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Homeless men
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Sample (statistics) Lodging house Personality Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine London medicine Complaint Personality Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Affective Symptoms education Psychiatry media_common Aged Demography Transients and Migrants education.field_of_study Family Characteristics NEVER MARRIED Single Person Middle Aged medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Social Class Social Isolation Socioeconomic Factors Schizophrenia Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 118(544) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1250 |
| Popis: | In a survey of a large lodging house in London 123 randomly selected men were individually interviewed by one psychiatrist, in accordance with a 64-item questionnaire. Socially there was a preponderance of Class 5 (59 per cent) not only as compared with the general population (13 per cent) but also as compared with the men's fathers (24 per cent), whose class they had never retained for themselves. The bulk were of an age to work, yet 58 per cent were unemployed at the time of interview. Many had originated outside London and drifted to the metropolis. Although there was an accumulation of mental disorder (schizophrenia 18, depressive illness 10), personality disorder was the characteristic psychiatric diagnosis, made on criteria that excluded homelessness as such. Over half had some troublesome physical complaint. 69 per cent had never married, and those who had married had usually separated after an ill-adjusted relationship. Some practical implications of the findings are discussed. |
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