Community-based Participatory Research Examining the Health Care Needs of African Americans who are Homeless with Mental Illness

• Published in: Journal of health care for the poor and underserved Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 119 - 133
• Main Authors: Corrigan, Patrick, Pickett, Susan, Kraus, Dana, Burks, Raymond, Schmidt, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Johns Hopkins University Press 01.02.2015
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Action Research; African Americans; AIDS; Chicago - epidemiology; Community-Based Participatory Research; Ethnicity; Focus groups; Health care; Health Problems; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Needs and Demand; HIV; Homeless people; Homeless Persons; Homelessness; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Hypotheses; Illnesses; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental Illness; Morbidity; Mortality; Mortality Rates; Neighborhoods; Peers; Public health; Qualitative research; Studies; Values

African Americans with mental illness who are homeless experience significant health risks and illnesses leading to high mortality and morbidity rates. A community-based participatory research (CBPR) team conducted a qualitative study to begin to describe these problems. Results from focus groups an...