TABLE 1—
Baseline Descriptive Statistics for the Study Sample (n = 111): Seattle, WA, December 2005–August 2008
| Variable | Mean ±SD or % |
| Age, y (n = 111) | 48.43 ±9.51 |
| Race/ethnicity (n = 111) | |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 29.73 |
| Asian | 0.90 |
| Black/African American | 7.21 |
| Hispanic/Latino/Latina | 6.31 |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 2.70 |
| White/Caucasian | 40.54 |
| > 1 race/ethnicity | 9.91 |
| “Other” race/ethnicity | 2.70 |
| History of homelessness in past 3 y (n = 109) | |
| About a month or less per y | 3.67 |
| > 1 mo/y but less than half the time | 10.09 |
| Half of the time or more but had some housing some of the time | 15.60 |
| Most of the time but may have had housing ≤ 1 mo/y | 70.64 |
| Substance-use variables | |
| Any alcohol use in past 30 d (n = 100) | 92.00 |
| Any drug use in past 30 d (n = 110) | 46.36 |
| Illness burden (n = 111) in past 3 mo | 3.04 ±2.47 |
| Extent of psychiatric symptoms in past 2 wka | |
| Interpersonal sensitivity (n = 106) | 1.02 ±0.92 |
| Depression (n = 107) | 1.31 ±1.00 |
| Anxiety (n = 107) | 1.34 ±1.08 |
| Hostility (n = 107) | 0.82 ±0.85 |
| Paranoid ideation (n = 107) | 1.11 ±0.93 |
| Psychoticism (n = 107) | 1.06 ±0.89 |
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Extent of psychiatric symptoms are mean Brief Symptom Inventory scores for each of the named 6 subscales, where 0 = participants report having been bothered by these symptoms “not at all,” and 4 = participants have been “extremely” bothered by these symptoms in the past 2 weeks.