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Our finding that 15% of the patients treated for serious mental illness were homeless during a 1-year period indicates a higher prevalence of homelessness than that reported in the only other published study that examined homelessness among all persons treated in a public mental health system (24). That study found Elsa Peretti Apple earrings 10% of the patients treated for schizophrenia and 7% of those treated for affective disorders used a public shelter during a 3-year period, compared to 2.8% of the general population. Other investigations of hospitalized patients have reported that 20% of veterans were homeless at the time of admission to a VA psychiatric ward (20) and that 15% of persons with psychotic disorders hospitalized for the first time were homeless (16). Clearly, Elsa Peretti Round earrings affects a sizable portion of persons with serious mental illness, and persons with serious mental illness are at greater risk for homelessness than the general population.

Patients with schizophrenia were 2.4 times more likely, and those with bipolar disorder 1.6 Return to Tiffany Round tag drop earrings more likely to be homeless than those with major depression. A prior study found that 9.7% of patients with schizophrenia used a public shelter, compared with 6.7% of patients with affective psychosis (24), while a second investigation did not find a significant difference in rates of homelessness among patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder with psychosis, or depression with psychosis (16). These two previous studies did not control for other clinical and demographic variables associated with homelessness. Our findings, in light of these prior investigations, suggest that specific psychiatric diagnoses confer different levels of risk for homelessness.