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Bovell-Ammon, A., Mansilla, C., Poblacion, A., Rateau, L., Heeren, T., Cook, J. T., ... & Sandel, M. T. (2020). Housing Intervention For Medically Complex Families Associated With Improved Family Health: Pilot Randomized Trial: Findings an intervention which seeks to improve child health and parental mental health for medically complex families that experienced homelessness and housing instability. Health Affairs, 39(4), 613-621. Evidence Rating: Emerging Intervention Components (click on component to see a list of all articles that use that intervention): Policy/Guideline (State), Social Supports, Counseling (Parent/Family), Housing Prescriptions Intervention Description: supportive housing program called Housing Prescriptions as Health Care Intervention Results: the Housing Prescriptions as Health Care intervention led to improvements in child health and parental mental health over a six-month period for medically complex families in Boston who had experienced homelessness and housing instability. Specifically, there were decreases in the share of children in fair or poor health and in average anxiety and depression scores among parents in the intervention group compared to the control group Conclusion: a population-specific model integrating health, housing, legal, and social services, such as the Housing Prescriptions as Health Care intervention, can improve health-related outcomes at the household level for medically complex families experiencing homelessness and housing instability. The findings suggest that addressing housing instability through a multifaceted supportive housing intervention can positively impact the health of both children and parents in these families Study Design: pilot randomized controlled trial. Setting: Boston, Massachusetts Sample Size: seventy-eight homeless or housing-unstable families defined as "medically complex"; Sixty-seven families completed a six-month follow-up assessment Age Range: mean age of the index child in the study was 2.8 years Access Abstract
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