Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Community Ment Health J. 2010 Aug;46(4):389-97. doi: 10.1007/s10597-009-9279-3. Epub 2009 Dec 25.
This study compared levels of loneliness, quality of life (QOL) and social support among people with serious mental illness (SMI) living in two different types of housing: group homes and supportive community housing. Forty persons with SMI living in supportive community housing and 57 living in a group home completed measures of QOL, symptoms, perceived social support and loneliness. Analysis of variance tests were conducted to examine whether there were differences in degree of loneliness, QOL and social support between the groups living in the two residential types. No significant differences between the two housing models were found. Correlational analysis, however, indicated a strong relationship between loneliness and QOL. Subsequent regression analysis revealed that residence in group homes moderates the relationship between social loneliness and QOL, such that social loneliness impacted QOL only among group home residence. Implications of the findings for understanding the impact of housing on QOL are discussed.
本研究比较了居住在两种不同住房类型中的严重精神疾病患者（SMI）的孤独感水平、生活质量（QOL）和社会支持水平：团体之家和支持性社区住房。40 名居住在支持性社区住房中的 SMI 患者和 57 名居住在团体之家的患者完成了 QOL、症状、感知社会支持和孤独感的测量。方差分析检验用于检验两组在孤独感、QOL 和社会支持方面的差异程度。结果显示，两种住房模式之间没有显著差异。然而，相关分析表明孤独感与 QOL 之间存在很强的关系。随后的回归分析显示，团体之家的居住情况调节了社交孤独感与 QOL 之间的关系，即社交孤独感仅对团体之家居住者的 QOL 产生影响。讨论了这些发现对理解住房对 QOL 影响的意义。
