New Mental Health Diseases and Conditions Study Findings Have Been Reported by Investigators at Trent University (Health System Access for Precariously Housed Youth: a Participatory Youth Research Project): Mental Health Diseases and Conditions

2022 APR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Mental Health Diseases and Conditions have been published. According to news reporting from Peterborough, Canada, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This article builds from young people’s experiences navigating health system organizations to identify concrete institutional and policy processes that pose problems for youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness, as well as those that show promise in terms of health promotion. Our participatory youth research team explored homeless youth’s health-seeking practices, the specific barriers they face, and relations between their health-seeking efforts and their homelessness.”

Funders for this research include Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), SSHRC Vanier Doctoral Scholarships Program, Pierre Eliot Trudeau Doctoral Fellowship Program, SSHRC Canada Research Chairs program.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Trent University, “Youth and adult co-researchers interviewed 38 individual youth (aged 16-29) who completed 64 qualitative institutional history interviews. Their accounts illuminate a systemic lack of capacity to address the mental health needs of homeless youth. Unable to secure access to timely, sufficient, and suitable programs and services, youth navigate patchwork of crisis and emergency supports that undermine their autonomy, their health, and their housing stability. Finally, youth without stable housing-particularly those who are Trans* and non-binary youth and/or who use drugs-report discrimination in health care settings.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our results suggest that access to timely, appropriate, de-stigmatizing, and consistent (mental) health services is one way to prevent youth homelessness.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Health System Access for Precariously Housed Youth: a Participatory Youth Research Project. Society and Mental Health, 2022. Society and Mental Health can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Society and Mental Health - smh.sagepub.com)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Naomi Nichols, Trent University, Peterborough, On, Canada.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/21568693221082206. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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