2024/12/04 by Lorenz B. Dehn, Julia Schreiter, Ingmar Steinhart +1 · 1 voice
Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Homelessness and Social Issues #Psychiatric care and mental health services #Schizophrenia research and treatment
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10597-024-01400-5
openalex publication_date 2024/12/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
Supported living plays an important role in the community-based care for people with mental illness. However, support services like floating outreach have hardly been the subject of longer-term research to date, especially with regard to Germany. Thus, the main aim of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the psychosocial outcomes of floating outreach support for non-homeless people with severe mental illness across a one-year period. In a group of n = 119 people (M = 41 years old, 36% with affective disorders) the quantitative analyses revealed significant improvements in quality of life (MANSA), overall social functioning (SFS), as well as general support and care needs (CAN-EU). Nevertheless, there were still some unmet (and even increasing) care needs among the respondents after one year, especially in the domains of "physical health" and "company of others". These findings therefore indicate areas of support that should be given more attention in the future.