Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics for Participants, Further Stratified into the Older and Younger Adult Samples.

	Full Sample			Older Adults			Younger Adults			Test Statistic	P Value
Demographic	N	Median	IQR	N	Median	IQR	N	Median	IQR
Age	285	45	20	226	48	12.3	59	24	4	N/Aa	N/A
Monthly income (CAD)	280	758	395	224	766.5	429	56	820	410	5836	0.39
Age at first homelessness	211	23	15.5	158	27	17	53	19	4	1979	<0.0001
Age at first precarious housing	266	29	18	209	34	16	57	21	3	1972.5	<0.0001
Months spent homeless	283	18.2	52	224	17.5	58.1	59	19.3	40.4	6914.5	0.58
Months spent in precarious housing	266	48	92.3	209	68	102	57	14.2	30	2756.5	<0.0001
Demographic	n/N		%	n/N		%	n/N		%	Test Statistic	P Value
Female	63/285		22.1	48/226		21.2	15/59		25.4	0.3	0.61
Completed high school	72/282		25.5	54/223		24.2	19/59		32.2	1.2	0.28
Obtained General Educational Development	43/282		15.2	41/223		18.4	2/59		3.39	7.0	0.008
Obtained trade cert., diploma, or degree	81/275		29.5	67/219		30.6	14/56		25	0.43	0.51
Diagnoses at Study Entry	n/N		%	n/N		%	n/N		%	Test Statistic	P Value
Psychotic disorder	135/285		47.4	100/226		44.2	35/59		59.3	4.2	0.041
Mood disorder	80/285		28.1	61/226		27	19/59		32.2	0.4	0.53
Alcohol dependence	53/285		18.6	39/226		17.3	14/59		23.7	0.9	0.34
Methamphetamine dependence	88/285		30.9	62/226		27.4	26/59		44.1	5.3	0.021
Cocaine dependence	160/285		56.1	156/226		69	4/59		6.78	71.1	<0.0001
Opioid dependence	148/285		51.9	128/226		56.6	20/59		33.9	8.8	0.003
Cannabis dependence	109/285		38.2	70/226		31	39/59		66.1	23.0	<0.0001

Note. Test statistics are for the difference in medians or proportions between the older and younger adult samples.

^a As older and younger adults were classified based on age we did not compare age statistically.