Are Rates of Psychiatric Disorders in the Homeless Population Changing?

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1 Are Rates of Psyhiatri Disorders in the Homeless Population Changing? Carol S. North, MD, MPE, Karin M. Eyrih, MSW, MPE, David E. Pollio, PhD, and Edward L. Spitznagel, PhD Objetives. We examined the prevalene of psyhiatri illness among 3 homeless populations in St. Louis, Mo, in approximately 1980, 1990, and The 3 studies were onduted with the same systemi researh methodology. Methods. We ompared seleted demographis and lifetime substane abuse and dependene and other mental illness among the 3 populations. Results. Among the homeless populations we studied, the prevalene of mood and substane use disorders dramatially inreased, and the number of minorities within these populations has inreased. Conlusions. The prevalene of psyhiatri illness, inluding substane abuse and dependene, is not stati in the homeless population. Servie systems need to be aware of potential prevalene hanges and the impat of these hanges on servie needs. (Am J Publi Health. 2004;94: ) Addressing the publi health onerns of the homeless population is a major hallenge for servie providers and poliymakers. This population suffers from multiple risk fators, inluding disproportionately high rates of mental illness and substane use and abuse. Understanding the risk fators and their hanging roles is essential for the development of effetive poliies and programs that address these onerns. Comparing homeless populations aross studies and over time has been impeded by methodologial diffiulties, 1,2 inluding inonsistent definitions of homelessness, varied sampling strategies and loations, and disparate measurement instruments. Differenes in population prevalene estimates of homelessness vary by tens of millions beause of sampling: low estimates are generated from samples of urrent homeless-shelter users only (urrent prevalene, literal homelessness), 3 and high estimates are generated from samples of individuals with any lifetime episode of unstable housing (lifetime prevalene, marginal housing). 4 This situation ompliates efforts to weigh risk fators for homelessness, suh as mental illness or substane abuse, aross populations and over time. Despite ontrols for sampling variation, only questionable reliability has emerged in omparisons of standardized and liniian-based estimates of risk. 5 Reasonably reliable ross-setional prevalene estimates and risk fators have emerged from adequately designed population studies over the last deade, 2,6 16 but the effets of time have not been adequately tested in these studies. The homeless population is always desribed at a disrete time point, whih oneptualizes homelessness as a stati phenomenon. Changes in the demographis of the homeless population over time may have ritial impliations for servie and publi health poliy implementation. Housing and labor markets, erosion of publi benefits, 21 and deinstitutionalization 19,21,22 all have been identified as risk fators for homelessness. Changes in these fores over time may shape the evolving omplexion of the homeless population and may ontribute to the level of mental illness or substane abuse within it. A substantial body of researh has shown that eonomis and federal and state poliies powerfully affet risks for homelessness. 23 Longitudinal data on the homeless population are generally unavailable. Therefore, the evolving dynamis of this population s demographis are most readily examined by omparing available data from different time periods. Although longitudinal studies represent the gold standard for examining hanges in prevalene of risk fators in the homeless population, separate studies that employ similar sampling methods and instrumentation onduted at different times offer an alternative approah. This rationale forms the basis of our study, whih apitalizes on population data from 3 studies onduted in St Louis, Mo, at 3 different time points approximately a deade apart. These 3 studies utilized the same methodology with systemati sampling and strutured psyhiatri interviews, whih yielded full psyhiatri diagnoses that met Amerian Psyhiatri Assoiation (APA) riteria. The purpose of our study is to ompare seleted demographis and relative prevalene of lifetime psyhiatri and substane abuse and dependene diagnoses among 3 homeless populations that were systematially assessed by strutured interviews in approximately 1980, 1990, and METHODS Sampling Two of the data sets for our analyses are produts of homeless-population studies onduted a deade apart in St Louis. The first of the 2 data sets was olleted between April 1989 and September 1991 as part of an epidemiologial study (referred to as the 1990 study in this report). A more reent data set inludes 396 index interviews onduted between Otober 1999 and May 2001 as part of a longitudinal study of servie utilization and substane abuse in the homeless population (referred to as the 2000 study in this report). Both studies, onduted in the same parts of the ity of St Louis by the same researh team, used the same sampling proess, with the exeption of sampling differenes regarding gender. The 1990 data set onsists of 2 samples reruited separately by gender with a preplanned ratio of 600 men to 300 women. The 2000 study reruited men and women randomly to reflet their numbers among shelter users and homeless people from publi areas in the greater pool of the available population. Statistial sampling methods were used to selet these men and women. The 2 studies reruited partiipants randomly from all overnight and daytime shelters loated in the ity of St Louis that serve the homeless in numbers proportionate to the size of eah shelter s roster, as well as from January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1 Amerian Journal of Publi Health North et al. Peer Reviewed Researh and Pratie 103

2 loations on systematially searhed streets and other publi areas where homeless people are known to ongregate. In both studies, individuals were onsidered homeless if they had no stable residene and were living in a publi shelter or in an unsheltered loation without a personal mailing address, suh as on the streets, in a ar, in an abandoned building, or in a bus station. Individuals who resided in inexpensive hotels for less than 30 days also were inluded. Marginally housed persons, suh as those living with friends or relatives or those living in single-room-oupany failities, were not inluded. Fourteen onseutive days of literal homelessness were required for inlusion in the 2000 study. A third data set inluded in our omparative analysis onsists of data extrated from the St Louis site s first wave of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) sponsored Epidemiologi Cathment Area (ECA) study, whih was olleted between April 1981 and Marh 1982 (referred to as the 1980 ECA study in this report). ECA subjets were seleted from 2 regions of the St Louis area: the ity itself and a setion of northeastern St Louis County that borders on the ity of St Louis. These regions were seleted for their eonomi similarity to the area from whih the homeless data were olleted. The exluded region was a 3-ounty area of suburban ommunities, small towns, and rural areas in St Charles, Linoln, and Warren Counties. 24 Not inluded in the ECA subsample were those who were institutionalized, suh as in nursing homes, board and are homes or boarding homes, prison or jail, mental retardation failities, mental hospitals, hroni hospitals, and residential treatment enters. Individuals were onsidered to have a lifetime history of homelessness if they responded affirmatively to either of 2 questions from the antisoial personality disorder setion of the Diagnosti Interview Shedule: (1) Have you ever traveled around for a month or more without having any arrangements ahead of time and not knowing how long you were going to stay or where you were going to work? and (2) Has there ever been a period when you had no regular plae to live for at least a month or so? From the St Louis ECA data set of 828 men and 1395 women, 69 men and 81 women provided an affirmative response to at least 1 of these 2 questions and identified an episode approximating homelessness at some time in their lives. The 1980 ECA study differs from the other 2 studies in its definition of homelessness (lifetime in the 1980 ECA study vs urrent episode of homelessness in the other 2 studies) and a sample not identified on the basis of urrent homelessness (although individuals inluded were subseleted for our study s analyses by history of homelessness). Nearly 7% of the 1980 ECA study sample met our study s working definition of homelessness, and more ECA men (9.8%) than women (5.0%) had been homeless (χ 2 =19.31, df=1, P 0.001). Multiple linear regression analysis that used gender as a ovariate independent variable revealed that those with a history of homelessness were younger than the rest of the study population (45.6 (SD=46.4) versus 32.5 (SD=24.9); β= 10.62, t=6.43, df=2220, P=.001). Instruments Trained interviewers used the Diagnosti Interview Shedule (DIS) to obtain psyhiatri diagnoses in all 3 studies. The 1980 ECA study used the DIS in Diagnosti and Statistial Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) 24 ; the 1990 study used the DIS in the Diagnosti and Statistial Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition (DSM-III-R) 25 ; and the 2000 study used the DIS in the Diagnosti and Statistial Manual of Mental Orders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) 26. The first 2 studies used the DIS to diagnose substane use disorders; the 2000 study used the Composite International Diagnosti Interview/ Substane Abuse Module (CIDI/SAM). Data Analysis We used SAS software (SAS Institute In, Cary, NC) to perform data analyses. The 1980 ECA study data set oversampled Afrian Amerians and the elderly, whih was orreted by weighting to estimate population prevalene. 27 The same weighting proedure was applied to our analyses of the 1980 ECA study data set. Findings from all 3 data sets are presented separately by gender, beause 1 of the 3 samples (the 1990 sample) was not olleted randomly by gender (that predetermined numbers of 600 men and 300 women) and thus does not permit omparisons over time by gender. For omparisons of both numeri and ategorial variables to manage the noninteger values generated by the weighting proedure, weighted means and standard errors were generated with PROC SURVEYMEANS in the SAS software. We omputed z sores of the differenes among groups by dividing the differene in the alulated weighted means by the square root of the sum of the squares of the standard errors. RESULTS Demographis Table 1 shows detailed demographis for men and women separately. With 1 exeption ( other females), the proportion of minorities had inreased by 1990, and these levels were maintained over the next deade. The 2000 study shows an inrease in the mean ages of both men and women. Nevermarried status of men inreased to about 50% by 1990 and remained at that level over the next deade. By 2000, the ranks of men in the lowest eduation ategory had inreased relative to previous deades. The proportion of employed men and women had dereased by 1990 and then inreased to partly regain previous levels by Psyhiatri Disorders Figures 1 and 2 show lifetime prevalene rates of psyhiatri disorders by gender for eah of the 3 studies. Over the past 2 deades, the prevalene of shizophrenia hanged very little among both men and women. Bipolar disorder, major depression, and pani disorder generally inreased over the 2 deades, but antisoial personality disorder did not hange appreiably. Overall, nonsubstane Axis I disorders (DSM-IV ) inreased among both men and women over the past 2 deades, and major depression aounted for the majority of these disorders at all 3 assessment points. Alohol use disorder was already highly prevalent among homeless men in 1980, and it inreased little over the next 2 deades. Among women, alohol use disorder was omparatively muh less prevalent but was inreasing more substantially over the 2 deades of evaluation. The prevalene of 104 Researh and Pratie Peer Reviewed North et al. Amerian Journal of Publi Health January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1

3 TABLE 1 Homeless-Population Demographis, by Deade and Gender: St Louis, Mo: 1980, 1990, and 2000 Males Females 1980 ECA Study 1990 Study 2000 Study 1980 ECA Study 1990 Study 2000 Study (n = 81) (n = 600) (n = 298) (n = 69) (n = 300) (n = 98) Rae Non-Hispani Blak Non-Hispani White a Other Age, y b Mean years b Standard deviation Median years Marital status Married Widowed Separated Divored Never married a Eduation High shool diploma or GED Mean years Standard deviation Median years Current full-time employment a Note. Compared with the 1980 Epidemiologi Cathment Area study, P.05, P.01, and P.001; ompared with the 1990 study, a P.05, b P.01, and P.001. drug use disorder inreased dramatially among both men and women over the past 2 deades, and among women, the inrease was higher than the prevalene of alohol use disorder. In 2000, 84% of men and 58% of women had an alohol or other drug use disorder. Also in 2000, substane use disorders aounted for the vast majority of psyhopathology (prevalene of any psyhiatri disorder was 88% among men and 69% among women). In 1980, the abused drug of hoie was annabis, but it was surpassed over the next 2 deades by oaine, whih had not been found among homeless men or women in The popularity of amphetamine and sedative-hypnoti abuse dereased after Opioid abuse remained relatively unhanged over the 2 deades and was the third most prevalent abused drug of hoie in A few hanges were evident in ages of onset of disorders. Among men, age of onset of bipolar disorder inreased substantially, espeially after The age of onset of bipolar disorder among men inreased to near the age of onset of oaine use disorder, whih is onsistent with the often omorbid ourrene of bipolar disorder with oaine use disorder among men (38% of ases in 1990 and 54% in 2000). Major depression also inreased among men relative to 1980, whereas age of onset of alohol and drug use disorders (and speifially annabis) delined. Among women, age of onset of shizophrenia dereased and age of oaine use disorder inreased relative to DISCUSSION Trends Over Time These 3 data sets suggest an evolution of the harateristis of the homeless population in St Louis over 2 deades. There are more minorities in the homeless population. Mood and substane use disorders have dramatially inreased, espeially drug use disorders (predominantly oaine) among women. Major depression is the main diagnosis in the nonsubstane diagnosis ategory, and substane use disorders, espeially alohol, represent the vast majority of all disorders. Coaine abuse was not evident in 1980, when the abused drug of hoie was annabis, but by 1990, it had established itself as the abused drug of hoie and retained this distintion in Methodologial Limitations Our examination of the 3 homeless-population data sets, whih were olleted in the same plae with the same assessment tool at 3 different times, has substantial limitations. The question of whether the apparent hanges observed in the St Louis homeless population represent national trends remains open and is a entral limitation of our study. However, inferential evidene (similarities in prevalene rates found in St Louis and those found elsewhere) suggests that speifi differenes found in St Louis may prove informative to providers elsewhere. The 1980 ECA study was a ommunity sample olleted for other purposes that happened to ontain people with a history of homelessness that we retrospetively approximated. The 1980 and 1990 studies used essentially idential sampling methods, although the 1990 sample had an arbitrary male to female ratio of 2 to 1 that ompromised our ability to examine gender differenes. The inherent nonuniformity of sampling prohibits the ability to draw stritly straight-line inferenes from the data. Beause the lifetime (not urrent) definition of homelessness in the 1980 ECA study alled for analysis of lifetime rather than urrent psyhiatri diagnosis, examination of the impat of reent symptoms on urrent homelessness was not possible. In the other 2 studies, entry into homelessness generally ourred more than 1 year prior to interview, whih redued the rele- January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1 Amerian Journal of Publi Health North et al. Peer Reviewed Researh and Pratie 105

4 TABLE 2 Age of Onset of Psyhiatri Disorders Among Homeless Populations, by Deade and Gender: St Louis, Mo: 1980, 1990, and 2000 Males Mean age of onset, SD 1980 (n = 81) 1990 (n = 600) 2000 (n = 298) 1980 (n = 69) 1990 (n = 300) 2000 (n = 98) Shizophrenia 19.5 (99.4) 20.8 (9.3) 23.1 (11.7) 28.3 (35.3) 16.4 (9.5) 18.9 (11.8) Bipolar disorder 18.0 (...) 21.0 (7.5) 27.3 (12.1) 19.1 (25.0) 18.6 (4.1) 22.9 (7.7) Major depression 20.5 (41.0) 27.0 (8.9) 27.5 (11.4) 15.3 (48.0) 23.5 (8.5) 20.0 (9.8) Pani disorder... (...) 23.9 (11.4) 26.8 (12.9) 14.4 (42.1) 20.6 (14.0) 21.5 (10.9) Any nonsubstane Axis I disorder 22.4 (88.8) 24.3 (9.8) 23.8 (12.1) 19.7 (60.5) 22.3 (9.5) 18.3 (10.5) a Antisoial personality disorder 19.2 (7.6) 21.0 (9.1) 21.2 (7.6) 20.7 (9.2) Alohol use disorder 21.6 (53.5) 20.0 (7.0) 19.3 (6.7) 18.5 (19.4) 19.6 (4.9) 19.9 (9.7) Amphetamine use disorder 21.6 (5.5) 19.1 (5.0) 24.0 (7.0) 19.8 (2.4) Cannabis use disorder 20.1 (6.4) 17.1 (5.4) a 21.2 (6.1) 17.8 (7.5) Coaine use disorder 27.9 (7.0) 28.7 (7.9) 24.5 (5.6) 28.4 (8.9) a Halluinogen use disorder 18.4 (5.7) 25.0 (21.4) 18.0 (...) 17.0 (...) Opioid use disorder 21.7 (6.2) 24.4 (16.0) 22.8 (6.5) 22.1 (8.1) Sedative use disorder 22.6 (5.5) 20.7 (7.0) 9.5 (5.1) 14.0 (...) Any drug use disorder 18.5 (37.7) 23.1 (7.4) 21.8 (10.1) 18.6 (35.9) 22.3 (5.3) 21.0 (8.6) Note. Compared with the 1980 Epidemiologi Cathment Area study, P.05, P.01, and P.001; ompared with the 1990 study, a P.05, b P.01, and P.001. Females Note. Compared with the 1980 Epidemiologi Cathment Area study, P.05, P.01, P.001; ompared with the 1990 study, a P.05, b P.01, P.001. FIGURE 1 Lifetime prevalene rates of psyhiatri disorders, by ohort and gender. vane of urrent symptoms to the prevalene fous of the researh question. The riteria used for psyhiatri diagnoses have evolved somewhat over time (from DSM-III to DSM-III-R to DSM-IV). The higher prevalene of several disorders identified with DSM-IV riteria in the 2000 study is espeially noteworthy, beause that diagnosti prevalene with DSM-IV has been found to be nearly 20% less than with DSM-III-R. 29 Diretional ausality of relationships between mental illness and homelessness annot be determined with the data available; therefore, the results annot diretly inform the debate on the degree to whih mental illness may lead to homelessness and the degree to whih homelessness may preipitate further mental illness. The findings from our study should spur additional researh to further address these questions and to inform poliy disussions. Impliations for Servie Delivery The results of our study disount a stati understanding of the homeless population. Therefore, to be responsive to this population, providers must attend to its hanging needs. Servie networks and ommunity responses that are based on outdated prevalene estimates run a substantial risk of providing servies that are not appropriate for urrent servie needs. Our findings reinfore a generally reognized appreiation of the entral role of substane abuse within mental health issues in the homeless population, whih again suggests the need for more attention within the pakage of homelessness servies for assessing and treating substane abuse and dependene. These analyses suggest that this may be espeially true for women whose prevalene of substane abuse has inreased aross all diagnosti ategories. In partiular, oaine use disorders among men and women, and alohol abuse among women, deserve greater intervention. Beause of the inrease in major depression, mental health servies should build upon rather than displae the urrent attention to servies for psyhiatri illnesses, suh as shizophrenia. Beause a portion of the major depression in the homeless population may represent onfounding with aspets of the homeless ondition (with a demonstrated link between exposure to the elements and the 106 Researh and Pratie Peer Reviewed North et al. Amerian Journal of Publi Health January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1

5 Perentage With Disorder Cannabis Amphetamine a a a Opiate Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Coaine Sedative/ hypnoti Halluinogen Any drug Alohol Note. Compared with the 1980 Epidemiologi Cathment Area study, P.05, P.01, P.001; ompared with the 1990 study, a P.05, b P.01, P.001. FIGURE 2 Lifetime prevalene of speifi substane abuse/dependene diagnoses, by ohort and gender. likelihood of this disorder), 5 it also is possible that a portion of the inrease in bipolar disorder may be onfounded with the preipitous inrease in oaine abuse/dependene (on the basis of its frequent overlap among the same individuals) and the inrease in age of onset of oaine abuse/dependene. More researh is needed to further explore these possibilities. Shifts in soial poliies may inadvertently ontribute to the hanging omplexion of the homeless population s demographis with regard to rae, substane abuse and dependene, and other mental illness For populations dealing with substane abuse and dependene, inreased risk for homelessness might be an unintended end produt of soial poliies aimed at alleviating poverty. It has been repeatedly argued that US poliy on deinstitutionalization has ontributed to the overall prevalene of mental illness in the homeless population Testing ausality would require minimally longitudinal methods and a nonhomeless poverty omparison group that are not provided in the data for our report. Further researh is needed to determine the degree to whih soial poliy modifies the risk for homelessness through these various fators. In the meantime, poliymakers are advised to be vigilant for negative effets of poliy hange on speifi subpopulations. Future Researh Diretions Results from our study learly point to several diretions for future researh. Repliation of previous prevalene studies is needed in other urban environments, and these studies should use similar methods for assessing adequay of servie needs for eah environment. Of ourse, longitudinal study of suffiient duration, inluding a omparison group, is most ideal for diret testing of hanges in prevalene of psyhiatri disorders within the homeless population over time. Finally, the potential impat of speifi soial poliy on both prevalene of homelessness and its demographis might be studied through the prospetive observation of initial entry into homelessness among samples at high risk for homelessness. Although a host of poliies may provide material for suh researh, the poliy of lifetime limits on welfare benefits is an ideal andidate for studying diret impat on homelessness. CONCLUSIONS The findings of our study, although inonlusive beause of methodologial limitations, suggest that prevalene of mental illness and substane abuse and dependene is not stati over time in the homeless population. Furthermore, hanges are not monolithi, but they partiularly apply to ertain diagnoses and desriptive harateristis. Servie systems need to be ognizant of the potential for prevalene hanges and how these hanges translate into evolving servie needs. Building on these findings, our study speulates that soial and eonomi poliies may ontribute to differential risks for homelessness among minorities as well as among those with addition or major depression. About the Authors Carol S. North is with the Dept of Psyhiatry, Washington University Shool of Mediine, St Louis, Mo. Karin M. Eyrih is with the Dept of Psyhiatry and George Warren Brown Shool of Soial Work, Washington University Shool of Mediine. David E. Pollio is with the George Warren Brown Shool of Soial Work, Washington University Shool of Mediine. Edward L. Spitznagel is with the Dept of Mathematis and Biostatistis, Washington University. Requests for reprints should be sent to Carol S. North, MD, MPE, Washington University Shool of Mediine, Dept of Psyhiatry, 660 South Eulid Ave, St Louis, MO ( north@psyhiatry.wustl.edu). This artile was aepted February 11, Contributors C.S. North and D.E. Pollio designed and reeived funding for the study, gathered data, direted the data analysis, and ollaborated in writing the artile. K.M. Eyrih performed data analysis and assisted with writing the artile. E.L. Spitznagel assisted with the study design, advised the analysis of the data, and assisted with writing the artile. Aknowledgments This paper was supported by grant R01 DA from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. An earlier version of these results was presented at the 2001 Amerian Publi Health Assoiation Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga. 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