Mental Health and Substance Use Among Homeless Adolescents in the US
Michael Liu, Katherine A. Koh, Stephen W. Hwang, Rishi K. Wadhera
Abstract
In the US, 1 in 30 adolescents experienced homelessness between 2016 and 2017. 1 Homelessness among adolescents occurs in the context of overwhelming stress, trauma, and deprivation, all of which are associated with worse mental health and substance use outcomes. owever, reliable estimates of the psychiatric burden among homeless adolescents are unavailable to inform policies and interventions to reduce health inequities experi-enced by this population. 3 Therefore, we evaluated mental health and substance use outcomes among homeless and nonhomeless adolescents in 2019.
Topics & Concepts
Art historyArtHumanitiesHomelessness and Social IssuesFood Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies