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Journal Article
Exploring the Role of Rehabilitation Medicine within an Inclusion Health Context: Examining a Population at Risk from Homelessness and Brain Injury in Edinburgh
2024
Overview
People experiencing homelessness are at risk from a number of comorbidities, including traumatic brain injury, mental health disorders, and various infections. Little is known about the rehabilitation needs of this population. This study took advantage of unique access to a specialist access GP practice for people experiencing homelessness and a local inclusion health initiative to explore the five-year period prevalence of these conditions in a population of people experiencing homelessness through electronic case record searches and to identify barriers and facilitators to healthcare provision for this population in the context of an interdisciplinary and multispecialist inclusion health team through semi-structured interviews with staff working in primary and secondary care who interact with this population. The five-year period prevalence of TBI, infections, and mental health disorders was 9.5%, 4%, and 22.8%, respectively. Of those who had suffered a brain injury, only three had accessed rehabilitation services. Themes from thematic analysis of interviews included the impact of psychological trauma, under-recognition of the needs of people experiencing homelessness, resource scarcity, and the need for collaborative and adaptive approaches. The combination of quantitative and qualitative data suggests a potential role for rehabilitation medicine in inclusion health initiatives.
Publisher
MDPI AG,MDPI
Subject
/ Adult
/ Aged
/ Brain
/ Brain Injuries - epidemiology
/ Brain Injuries - rehabilitation
/ Brain Injuries, Traumatic - rehabilitation
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Ill-Housed Persons - psychology
/ Ill-Housed Persons - statistics & numerical data
/ Injuries
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Mental Disorders - epidemiology
/ Mental Disorders - rehabilitation
/ Scarcity
/ Sexually transmitted diseases
/ STD
/ Stigma
/ Trauma
