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The Relationship between Discrimination and Perceived Stress: Buffering Effect of Online Health Information Seeking among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
In Young Park,Anamika Barman-Adhikari,Hsun-Ta Hsu,Sarah C. Narendorf,Diane Santa Maria,Jama Shelton,Kristin M. Ferguson,Kimberly Bender,Robin Petering +8 more
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This paper showed that young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) face discrimination experiences placing them at risk for negative health outcomes, such as depression, anxiety, and depression, and reported discrimination and perceived stress.Abstract:
Young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) face discrimination experiences placing them at risk for negative health outcomes. Prior research demonstrates discrimination and perceived stress amon...read more
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Mobile Phone and Social Media Use of Homeless Youth in Denver, Colorado
TL;DR: Investigation of homeless youth mobile phone and social media use found regular use of Facebook was more prevalent among those in housing programs or camping, than those living on the streets.
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Automated Mobile Phone–Based Mental Health Resource for Homeless Youth: Pilot Study Assessing Feasibility and Acceptability
Angela C Glover,Stephen M. Schueller,Dominika A. Winiarski,Dale L. Smith,Dale L. Smith,Niranjan S. Karnik,Alyson K. Zalta,Alyson K. Zalta +7 more
TL;DR: Automated mental health interventions seem to be an acceptable way to engage homeless youth in mental health support via smartphone technology, and the participants preferred fully automated features and brief interventions over features requiring interaction with others or more engagement.
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Homelessness: perspectives, misconceptions, and considerations for occupational therapy.
TL;DR: The objectives of this paper are to present a unifying taxonomy of prominent perspectives on homelessness, and to illustrate how various perspectives lead to particular characterizations of persons who become homeless.
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YTH StreetConnect: Development and Usability of a Mobile App for Homeless and Unstably Housed Youth
Bhupendra Sheoran,Cara Lynn Silva,James E. Lykens,Londiwe Gamedze,Samantha P. Williams,Jessie V. Ford,Melissa A. Habel +6 more
TL;DR: YTH StreetConnect is a promising way to increase service utilization, provide referral access, and share resources among H/UH youth and providers, and proposed improvements to the app, including visual updates to the user interface, map icons, new underrepresented resource categories, and the addition of a peer rating system.