The authors used a pre-post cohort design to compare two groups of homeless veterans with serious mental illness after discharge from eight VA medical centers across five states: 1) 278 veterans recruited before CTI was implemented; and 2) 206 veterans who were offered CTI.
This randomized trial of 135 veterans with serious mental illness assessed the effectiveness of a brief CTI intervention (B-CTI) in attaining a limited outcome, namely to increase outpatient visits during the first three months after discharge from psychiatric hospital.
This first randomized trial of the nine-month CTI model assessed its effectiveness in preventing homelessness among 96 men with serious mental disorder being placed into community housing from a large shelter in New York City. The men were followed up for 18 months.