Project
Housing as a Determinant of Health for High Risk Mothers and Their Children
Principal Investigator(s): Nancy Poole, phone: 604-875-2066 or 2633, email: npoole@cw.bc.ca; Lorraine Greaves and Amy Salmon
Start/End Date: May 2005 – April 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC
Brief Description: The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of supportive housing for mothers with substance use problems and their children in the perinatal period, on key life domains related to longer-term health and social outcomes. This study will also help determine the feasibility of recruitment and retention strategies required to follow high-risk mothers over time. The study objectives are: to describe the health, violence-related, custody/parenting, housing, income and food security issues facing mothers with substance use problems and their children; to map changes in mother’s and children’s status in these key life areas over a 3 year period; to identify the services the mothers access over the 3 year period, and specifically how/if adequate, supportive housing in the first year postnatally influences the capacity to access the full range of needed services; and to analyse how stable housing in the perinatal period contributes to outcomes in these key life areas for mothers and their children. The study population is high-risk mothers with substance use problems who access outpatient services (from Sheway in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver) and supportive housing services (from the YWCA supportive housing, co-located with Sheway). They will be compared with mothers accessing Sheway’s outpatient support services only.
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: research
Population Served: urban
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