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A self-prepared sociodemographic questionnaire, the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), European Five-dimensional Health Scale (EQ-5D), and Eysenck Personality were administrated to 3,967 chronically homeless and 3,724 non-homeless patients from the Department of Xiangtan Fifth People's Hospital, Hunan, China, between April 2011 and October 2016. Results indicated that the homeless patients were more likely to live outside the city and be ethnic minorities compared with non-homeless patients. Although the married proportion was higher among homeless patients, they had a higher rate of being divorced or widowed. Notably, the homeless patients had higher employment rates before illness, despite significantly lower education (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). Chronically homeless patients with schizophrenia showed a lower score in the SSRS (30.29 \u00b1 7.34 vs. 26.16 \u00b1 10.04, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001); they had significantly lower objective support, subject support, social support, and EQ-Visual Analog Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Psychoticism, and Eysenck Personality-Neuroticism scores (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). 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