"I'm losing everything all over again": Responses from youth experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal
Archives of psychiatric nursing
ISSN: 1532-8228
Titre abrégé: Arch Psychiatr Nurs
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8708534
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
received:
16
06
2021
accepted:
04
08
2021
entrez:
4
12
2021
pubmed:
5
12
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Already at high-risk for adverse consequences associated with daily living, youth experiencing homelessness face additional barriers to health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to identify the self-reported experiences and healthcare needs of youth experiencing homelessness as services in the community began to shut down at the beginning of the pandemic. From May through November 2020, qualitative data were obtained by telephone or Facebook messenger from 20 youth (M = 22.4, SD = 2.64 years) who had been enrolled in a longitudinal intervention study. Content analysis of qualitative data yielded 5 categories and 1 overall theme. Categories were resource availability, financial instability, mental health, relationship conflict, and maladaptive coping. The overall theme was multiple losses. Youths lost jobs, means of financial support for self and family, access to social and healthcare services, meaningful and important relationships, and skills and controls over high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse. Having similar experiences such as social isolation as those of high school students during the pandemic, the youths in this sample experienced multiple and simultaneous losses, needing time to grieve, and leaving them once more at high-risk for adverse outcomes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34861960
pii: S0883-9417(21)00122-9
doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2021.08.002
pmc: PMC8551686
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
653-657Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R01 HD083576
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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