Study Of Those Using Emergency Shelter Finds Experience Worsens Mental Health

A study involving people using emergency shelter in Cork has found the experience worsens their mental health.

Interviews were conducted over an eighteen-month period with 36 people staying long term at Cork Simon's emergency shelter. 

 

It found their experiences in emergency accommodation have added to their vulnerabilities, like drug misuse.

 

Paul Sheehan from Cork Simon says that's the opposite to outcomes in a previous study of people who got long term housing:

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