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Homeless mentally ill veterans: race, service use, and treatment outcomes
R Rosenheck1, C Leda, L Frisman
1Northeast Program Evaluation Center, V.A. Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, USA.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|November 15, 1997
Abstract:
Comparisons of service use and treatment outcomes for 145 black and 236 white homeless veterans with mental disorders showed few differences. A greater improvement in psychiatric symptoms and alcohol problems among white than black veterans did not hold true when black veterans had participated in the residential treatment component of the program. The implications of the findings for the successful treatment of homeless black veterans are discussed.