Comparison of Housing First and Traditional Homeless Service Users in Eight European Countries: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Multi-Site Study

Ronni Michelle Greenwood   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Rachel M Manning   ¹ , PhD ;   Branagh R O'Shaughnessy   ¹ , BA ;   Oisin Cross   ¹ ;   Maria J Vargas-Moniz   ² , PhD ;   Pascal Auquier   ³ , PhD ;   Massimo Santinello   ⁴ , PhD ;   Judith R Wolf   ⁵ , PhD ;   Anna Bokszczanin   ⁶ , PhD ;   Roberto Bernad   ^{7 *} , MA ;   Håkan Källmén   ⁸ , PhD ;   Frederik Spinnewijn   ⁹ , MA ;   José Ornelas   ² , PhD ;   HOME_EU Consortium   ^{10 *}

¹ Psychology Department, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

² Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities and Inclusion, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal

³ Centre d'Études et de Recherche sur les Services de Santé et la Qualité de Vie, La Timone Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

⁴ Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

⁵ Impuls - Netherlands Center for Social Care Research, Radboud Institute for Health Science, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁶ Institute of Psychology, Opole University, Opole, Poland

⁷ Red de Apoyo a la Integración Sociolaboral Fundacion, Madrid, Spain

⁸ Stockholm Prevents Alcohol and Drug Problems, Stockholm Center for Psychiatry Research and Education, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

⁹ European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless, Brussels, Belgium

¹⁰ see Authors' Contributions

*these authors contributed equally