A systematic review on the association among homelessness, delinquency and mental health

In the present project a systemic review was carried out to try to reveal if the is an association among three variables: "homelessness", "delinquency", and "mental health". First and foremost, it was imperative to find out if this was already a subject of investigation and if so, which conclusions were more persistent. Later, and with a carefully constructed algorithm applied to the PubMed data base, a number of already existing investigations were selected to analyze. Once the literature was selected it was time to filter through and see which one were going to serve the objective of this project, by which criteria of inclusion and exclusion were developed in order to be able to easily remove those that were not going to be of use. Finally with the articles read, conclusions were extracted in order to create a proper answer to the question "Is there an association among homelessness, delinquency and mental health?". En el present projecte s'ha dut a terme una revisió sistemàtica per saber si existeix una associació entre tres variables: "sense sostre", "delinqüència" i "salut mental". Primerament, era imperatiu que es busqués si ja hi havia investigacions al respecte i, en cas que sí, conèixer com s'havia tractat el tema i quines eren les conclusions establertes. Després es va construir amb un algoritme que pogués ser útil per trobar els articles que resultessin més adients per l'estudi. Un cop es va seleccionar la literatura que es tractaria es van desenvolupar criteris d'inclusió i exclusió per tal de poder descartar tots aquells articles que no aportessin informació suficient per l0objectiu del projecte. Finalment, un cop llegits els articles es van desenvolupar conclusions discutint els resultats d'aquelles investigacions prèviament realitzades i es va desenvolupar una conclusió pròpia.