Predicting Homelessness Among Transitioning U.S. Army Soldiers.

Journal: American journal of preventive medicine
Published Date:

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: This study develops a practical method to triage Army transitioning service members (TSMs) at highest risk of homelessness to target a preventive intervention.

Authors

  • Jack Tsai
    National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, VA Homeless Programs Office, Washington, District of Columbia; School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: Jack.Tsai@uth.tmc.edu.
  • Dorota Szymkowiak
    National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, VA Homeless Programs Office, Washington, District of Columbia.
  • Dina Hooshyar
    National Center on Homelessness among Veterans (the Center) Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX, United States.
  • Sarah M Gildea
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Irving Hwang
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Chris J Kennedy
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Andrew J King
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • Katherine A Koh
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Alex Luedtke
    Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
  • Brian P Marx
    National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Ann E Montgomery
    National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, VA Homeless Programs Office, Washington, District of Columbia; School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; VA Birmingham Health Care System, Birmingham, Alabama.
  • Robert W O'Brien
    VA Health Services Research and Development Service, Washington, District of Columbia.
  • Maria V Petukhova
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
  • Nancy A Sampson
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
  • Murray B Stein
    Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine & Public Health, University of California San Diego, and VA San Diego Healthcare System.
  • Robert J Ursano
    Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine.
  • Ronald C Kessler
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.