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May 2006, Vol 96, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 764-765
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.084806

LETTER

CATON ET AL. RESPOND

Carol L. M. Caton, PhD, Patrick E. Shrout, PhD, Deborah S. Hasin, PhD, Alan Felix, MD, Bella Schanzer, MD, Lewis A. Opler, MD, PhD, Hunter McQuistion, MD and Boanerges Dominguez, MS

Carol L. M. Caton, Deborah S. Hasin, Alan Felix, Bella Schanzer, and Boanerges Dominguez are with the Department of Psychiatry and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Patrick E. Shrout is with the Department of Psychology, New York University, New York. Lewis A. Opler is with the New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY. Hunter McQuistion is with the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Carol L. M. Caton, PhD, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: clc3@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We appreciate Alexander-Eitzman’s interest in our article and welcome the opportunity to respond to his letter. We take issue with his assertion that our approach in this study of risk factors for long-term homelessness is one where the "tools define the problem,"1(pXXX) with the implication that our predictor variables were heavily tilted toward the assessment of psychopathology. Although our assessment battery did include standardized assessments of health and mental health status, the tools did not define the results.

Our overall findings underscored the heterogeneity of the contemporary homeless, but a Kaplan–Meier survival analysis showed that participants who were younger and . . . [Full Text]






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