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Sheltered Housing for the Chronic Psychiatric Patient: The Influence of Operators of Board and Care Facilities on Community Participation of their Residents

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1986

Abstract

Home care settings remain a primary alternative for the community placement of individuals with chronic psychiatric disabilities. This exploratory study employed survey data collected from randomly selected sheltered care facilities in the City of Winnipeg. The intent was to study the influence operators of sheltered care facilities had both on levels of alienation experienced by their residents and as well, on the level of actual contact residents had with people living in the neighbourhood. It was found that alienation in residents was not related to the level of social alienation expressed by the operators of the board and care homes in which chronic patients resided, but seemed directly tied to the individual resident's level of psychopathology and sex. However, level of psychopathology was not found to be directly related to the degree of actual contact the chronically disabled had with people living in their immediate neighbourhood. Contact with neighbours achieved by the mentally ill was found to be directly related to the level of social alienation of the people operating their board and care residences. Overall, it appeared that women residents under the care of less socially alienated board and care operators, experienced the highest levels of neighbourhood contacts.

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Les foyers d'acceuil demeurent une alternative prioritaire pour favoriser l'intégration communautaire des personnes atteintes de troubles psychiatriques chroniques. La présente étude est exploratoire et utilise des données receuillies auprès d'un échantillon aléatoire de foyers d'acceuil de la ville de Winnipeg. On se proposait d'analyser l'influence des gestionnaires de ces résidences sur deux éléments différents: le degré d'aliénation vécue par les résidents et le niveau de contact entre les résidents et la population du quartier. On a découvert que l'aliénation des résidents n'était pas reliée au degré d'aliénation sociale des gestionnaires mais semblait avoir un lien direct avec le sexe et le degré de psychopathologie des résidents. Cependant on n'a pas trouvé de lien entre le degré de psychopathologie des résidents et leur niveau de contact avec les gens du quartier. Le contact avec les voisins établi par les résidents était directement relié au degré d'aliénation sociale des gestionnaires des résidences. Dans l'ensemble leś femmes qui résident dans des centres dirigés par des gestionnaires peu aliénés socialement sont celles qui établissent les meilleurs contacts avec les voisins.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 5Number 1April 1986
Pages: 31 - 38

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Version of record online: 29 April 2009

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Barry Trute
University of Manitoba

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