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Housing First and harm reduction: a rapid review and document analysis of the US and Canadian open-access literature

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, May 2017
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Title
Housing First and harm reduction: a rapid review and document analysis of the US and Canadian open-access literature
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Harm Reduction Journal, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12954-017-0158-x
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Dennis P. Watson, Valery Shuman, James Kowalsky, Elizabeth Golembiewski, Molly Brown

Abstract

Housing First is an evidence-based practice intended to serve chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Despite housing active substance users, harm reduction is an often-overlooked element during the Housing First implementation process in real-world settings. In this paper, we explore the representation of the Housing First model within the open-access scholarly literature as a potential contributing factor for this oversight. We conducted a rapid review of the US and Canadian open-access Housing First literature. We followed a document analysis approach, to form an interpretation of the articles' content related to our primary research questions. A total of 55 articles on Housing First were included in the final analysis. Only 21 of these articles (38.1%) included explicit mention of harm reduction. Of the 34 articles that did not discuss harm reduction, 22 provided a description of the Housing First model indicating it does not require abstinence from substance use; however, descriptions did not all clearly indicate abstinence was not required beyond program entry. Additional Housing First descriptions focused on the low-barrier entry criteria and/or the intervention's client-centeredness. Our review demonstrated a lack of both explicit mention and informed discussion of harm reduction in the Housing First literature, which is likely contributing to the Housing First research-practice gap to some degree. Future Housing First literature should accurately explain the role of harm reduction when discussing it in the context of Housing First programming, and public agencies promoting Housing First uptake should provide resources for proper implementation and monitor program fidelity to prevent model drift.

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Unknown 160 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 21%
Researcher 21 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 42 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 39 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 10%
Psychology 16 10%
Arts and Humanities 3 2%
Other 19 12%
Unknown 43 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2024.
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#1,364,673
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Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#220
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#26,282
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Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#5
of 28 outputs
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