ArticleInternational journal of public health2011
Material and meaningful homes: mental health impacts and psychosocial benefits of rehousing to new dwellings.
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- Housing improvements for health and associated socio-economic outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
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- Improvements in habitability and housing satisfaction after dwelling regeneration in social housing complexes. The RUCAS study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2023Article
- "International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Relocating to a new or pre-existing social housing unit: significant health improvements for Inuit adults in Nunavik and Nunavut.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Observational
- Household overcrowding and psychological distress among Nunavik Inuit adolescents: a longitudinal study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2018Article
- The impact of life events on adult physical and mental health and well-being: longitudinal analysis using the GoWell health and well-being survey.BMC research notes · 2016Article
- Is changing status through housing tenure associated with changes in mental health? Results from the British Household Panel Survey.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2015Article
- Household crowding and psychosocial health among Inuit in Greenland.International journal of public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo establish whether rehousing people to new dwellings had impacts upon residents' mental health and psychosocial benefits derived from the home.
methodsA prospective controlled study across Scotland involving 723 householders (334 intervention; 389 control). Interviews were carried out just prior to the move, and 2 years thereafter.
resultsChanges in self-reported psychosocial benefits were greater than changes in mental health. Respondents in family households appeared to have gained the most and those in older person households the least. For those in families, the most consistent effects flowed from improvements in space, privacy and change of location; for those in adult-only households, improvements in crime and safety mattered most. Gains in psychosocial benefits were associated with improved mental health (SF-36) scores.
conclusionsRehousing has substantial impacts on residential conditions and on psychosocial benefits, and lesser (possibly indirect) impacts upon mental health. Housing is a complex intervention applied to a heterogeneous group for a range of reasons. Hence its impacts result from different aspects of residential change for particular types of household.
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