This project is designed to conduct a systematic controlled study of alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders in the St. Louis homeless population. Specifically, 650 homeless men will be sampled from three sources: shelters (N = 250), day centers (N = 150), and street locations (N = 250). These three subgroups of homeless men will be interviewed with the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) to make well-specified DMS-III diagnoses. Diagnoses in the three subgroups will then be compared with each other, and also with the established ECA sample of the same St. Louis inner-city area. Additionally, the homeless population will be examined for rates of personality disorders. Other factors, including family psychiatric history and demographic and social variables, will be examined for their longitudinal relationship to homelessness. In this way, correlates of homelessness in alcoholic men may be determined. Identification of those factors associated with the development and perpetuation of the homeless condition may help direct those serving the homeless and near-homeless populations to assist them in the most valuable and effective manner.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AA007549-03
Application #
3111308
Study Section
Clinical and Treatment Subcommittee (ALCP)
Project Start
1988-09-15
Project End
1992-08-31
Budget Start
1990-09-01
Budget End
1992-08-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1990
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Washington University
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
062761671
City
Saint Louis
State
MO
Country
United States
Zip Code
63130
North, Carol S; Eyrich, Karin M; Pollio, David E et al. (2004) The Homeless Supplement to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule: test-retest analyses. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 13:184-91