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Studies regarding supported housing and the built environment for people with mental health problems: A mixed-methods
Jan Georg Friesinger1, Alain Topor2, Tore Dag Bøe1
1University of Agder, Department of Psychosocial Health, Grimstad, Norway.
Abstract:
Places where people live are important for their personal and social lives. This is also the case for people with mental health problems living in supported housing. To summarise the existing knowledge, we conducted a systematic review of 13 studies with different methodologies regarding the built environment in supported housing and examined their findings in a thematic analysis. The built environment of supported housing involves three important and interrelated themes: well-being, social identity and privacy. If overregulated by professionals or located in problematic neighbourhoods or buildings, the settings could be an obstacle to recovery. If understood as meaningful places with scope for control by the tenants or with amenities nearby, the settings could aid recovery.
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