Table 1.
HEALTH-RELATED TOPICS AND PERCENTAGE OF PARTICIPANTS WHO MENTIONED EACH CATEGORY (N = 44)
| Topics/Categories | Examples | Participants Mentioning Each Category N (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Alcohol-related harm | ||
| Link between alcohol and health problems | “Alcoholism leads to death. It leads to pancreatitis.” (PT39) “You can look in my eyes and tell the liver’s gone.” (PT36) “I’m killing myself every day by drinking. I see that.” (PT09) “God’s gonna take me soon if I keep it up [drinking] … I’m making my fucking self worse and worse and worse to where I’m gonna kill myself.” (PT20) |
21 (47.7) |
| In-utero alcohol exposure | “… my mom was dead drunk all the time she carried me.” (PT20) “I was born an alcohol syndrome baby.” (PT33) |
4 (9.1) |
| Perceived health vulnerability | ||
| Illness and aging | “I can’t even jog half a block without basically running out of breath.” (PT23) “My arthritis is so bad I can’t even put my socks on inside my shoes.” (PT10) |
30 (68.2) |
| Intentional and unintentional injury | “I had another seizure. I cracked my head.” (PT21) “Fell off a barstool at the [Name of bar]. Nice place. Broke my pelvis.” (PT25) “Beat me up bloody, lump on the back of my head. They could’ve killed me.” (PT12) |
18 (40.9) |
| Cognitive impairment | “I don’t keep track of time very well.” (PT09) “I don’t remember what I did yesterday … I’m just worried about losing my mind.” (PT10) |
16 (36.4) |
| Concern for fellow residents | ||
| “There are people in here that are disabled.” (PT42) “They [fellow residents] fall and literally bust their head.” (PT30) |
24 (54.5) | |
| End of life | ||
| “They just came in here to die. That’s all there is to it.” (PT42) “I think they know in the back of their mind they’re going to die here.” (PT05) “Every month there would be a new person that died.” (PT27) “A friend of mine died about two weeks ago.” (PT42) |
15 (34.1) | |
| Health and safety promotion | ||
| “I did the liver treatment for Hepatitis C and I did that successfully [in Housing First].” (PT27) “I didn’t seem to have to go to the hospital aft er I moved in here.” (PT12) “I can lock the door. Nobody can come in and hurt me, and I can even lock the window.” (PT24) |
27 (61.4) | |