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Housing Need Among Children With Medical Complexity: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study of Three Populations.

Acad Pediatr

August 2022

Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children (K Esser, C Moore, KG Hounsell, R Shulman, E Cohen, and J Orkin), Toronto, Canada; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto (R Shulman), Toronto, Canada; Division of Paediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children (E Cohen and J Orkin), Toronto, Canada. Electronic address:

Objective: Children with medical complexity (CMC) are hypothesized to have unique housing and accessibility needs due to their medical fragility and medical technology dependency; however, research on prevalence and types of housing need in CMC is limited. The objective was to describe housing need in families of CMC, and to compare housing need across CMC, children with one chronic condition (Type 1 diabetes; CT1D) and healthy children (HC).

Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study assessed housing suitability, adequacy, affordability, stress, stability, and accessibility using survey methodology.

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