Quality of life in boarding houses and hostels : a residents' perspective
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TextPublication details: Community Mental Health Journal, August 2001.Description: 12 pagesSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: In the last forty years deinstitutionalization has transferred the care of people with a serious mental illness from the psychiatric hospitals to community based facilities. More recently it has been questioned whether these new facilities offer the anticipated benefits of quality of life. This study examines the Quality of Life (QOL) of people diagnosed with schizophrenia living in two different accommodation facilities, hostels and boarding houses. QOL is examined from the resident's perspective. Lehman's (1988b) QOL Interview was used to measure objective, subjective, and global QOL of 60 participants in three hostels and two boarding house clusters. Hostel and boarding house data were compared and results showed that residents preferred boarding house accommodation. Overall, residents of both accommodation facilities reported satisfaction with QOL, and indicated that they regard them as asylum or sanctuary from the outside world.
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KEYWORDS: Boarding houses, quality of life, mental health
CITATION: Horan, M E et al. “Quality of life in boarding houses and hostels: a residents' perspective.” Community mental health journal vol. 37,4 (2001): 323-34. doi:10.1023/a:1017500624447
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