ArticlePsychological services2019
Veterans' experiences initiating VA-based mental health care.
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- A rapid review of the barriers and facilitators of mental health service access among Veterans and their families.Frontiers in health services · 2024Pooled it
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- Establishing community partnerships to maintain social connection and healthcare access during an emergency declaration: virtual veterans socials.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Innovative outpatient treatment for veterans and service members and their family members.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- The Veterans Health Administration's integrated model of care increases accessibility and delivery of mental health services.Psychological services · 2023Article
- Using Veterans Socials to Build a Community: Feasibility of the VOICES Intervention.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- Mental Health Pharmacists: Increasing Necessary Mental Health Service Delivery.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2022Article
- Electronic Population-Based Depression Detection and Management Through Universal Screening in the Veterans Health Administration.JAMA network open · 2022Article
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- Impact of Attitudes and Rurality on Veterans' Use of Veterans Health Administration Mental Health Services.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Article
- Pilot trial of a transdiagnostic computerized anxiety sensitivity intervention among VA primary care patients.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
- Timing of evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder initiation among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in the Veterans Health Administration.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2020Article
- Development of a Perceived Access Inventory for Community Care Mental Healthcare Services for Veterans.Military medicine · 2019Article
- Coordinating Care Across VA Providers and Settings: Policy and Research Recommendations from VA's State of the Art Conference.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Military veterans who could benefit from mental health services often do not access them. Research has revealed a range of barriers associated with initiating United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) care, including those specific to accessing mental health care (e.g., fear of stigmatization). More work is needed to streamline access to VA mental health-care services for veterans. In the current study, we interviewed 80 veterans from 9 clinics across the United States about initiation of VA mental health care to identify barriers to access. Results suggested that five predominant factors influenced veterans' decisions to initiate care: (a) awareness of VA mental health services; (b) fear of negative consequences of seeking care; (c) personal beliefs about mental health treatment; (d) input from family and friends; and (e) motivation for treatment. Veterans also spoke about the pathways they used to access this care. The four most commonly reported pathways included (a) physical health-care appointments; (b) the service connection disability system; (c) non-VA care; and (d) being mandated to care. Taken together, these data lend themselves to a model that describes both modifiers of, and pathways to, VA mental health care. The model suggests that interventions aimed at the identified pathways, in concert with efforts designed to reduce barriers, may increase initiation of VA mental health-care services by veterans. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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