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0519/2016 - Pacientes psiquiátricos em situação de rua e encarceramento no Brasil.
Homelessness and incarceration among psychiatric patients in Brazil

Author:

• Ana Paula Souto Melo - Melo, Ana Paula Souto - Divinópolis, Minas Gerais - Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei, Faculdade de Medicina - <ana.paula.souto.melo@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Fabiana Cristina Ribeiro Barros - Barros, Fabiana Cristina Ribeiro - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Medicina, Pos Graduação Saúde Pública - <fabiepidemiologia@gmail.com>
• Eduardo de Paula Lima - Lima, Eduardo de Paula - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Medicina - <edpl@hotmail.com>
• Lidyane V Camelo - Camelo, L.V. - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS, PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM SAÚDE PÚBLICA - <lidyanecamelo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-7547
• Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães - Guimarães, M. D. C. - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social, Faculdade de Medicina - <mark.guimaraes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7932-3854

Thematic Area:

Epidemiologia

Abstract:

Psychiatric patients are at increased risk of adverse life events, such as being incarcerated and homelessness in their life course. Using data from a cross-sectional multicenter study of 2,475 patients selected from 26 mental health services in Brazil, we examined the association of sociodemographic, clinical, behavioral, and adverse life characteristics with history of homelessness, incarceration or their co-occurrence during lifetime. Odds ratios were obtained by multinomial logistic regression models. The prevalence of homelessness, incarceration and co-occurrence of these two conditions were 8.6%, 16.4%, and 9.4%, respectively. Lower income, living in unstable condition, intellectual disability, and cigarette smoking were associated with homelessness. Being male, lower schooling, sex under effect of alcohol or drugs, and multiple sex partners were associated with incarceration. Psychiatric hospitalizations, substance use, and history of sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual, physical, or verbal violence were associated with co-occurrence of both conditions. Our findings suggest that incarceration and homelessness are highly prevalent and correlated in psychiatric patients in Brazil. Many of the associated factors are potentially modifiable, and may act synergistically requiring integrated care.

Keywords:

homeless personsmental disordersepidemiologyprisons

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Vol. 23 N.11 - NOVEMBER/2018

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Melo, Ana Paula Souto, Barros, Fabiana Cristina Ribeiro, Lima, Eduardo de Paula, Camelo, L.V., Guimarães, M. D. C.. Pacientes psiquiátricos em situação de rua e encarceramento no Brasil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Nov). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/pacientes-psiquiatricos-em-situacao-de-rua-e-encarceramento-no-brasil/15945?id=15945



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