[Assessment of quality of life and needs of homeless mentally ill people: perceptions of an outreach team.].
This project established by an outreach team from the CLSC des Faubourgs in autumn 1998, studies how the members of this team perceive the impact of their clinical intervention with homeless people suffering of severe mental illness. A convenience sample (n=52) was selected within the team's clientele. The clientele's needs were evaluated with the Camberwell Assessment of Needs (CAN-F, Phelan et al., 1995). Quality of life was measured twice with the Wisconsin Quality of Life Questionnaire (Becker et al., 1993). The project shows that clinical intervention is associated with an improvement in quality of life of severely mentally ill homeless people and this despite the existence of numerous other needs that are not met. The study suggests the work done by the outreach team touches the clinical aspects and is associated with the improvement of social problems of severely mentally ill homeless people.
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