ArticleGlobal advances in health and medicine2021
"Then COVID happened…": Veterans' Health, Wellbeing, and Engagement in Whole Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Chronic pain and problematic substance use for veterans during COVID-19: the moderating role of psychological flexibility.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Unmet Needs and Coping Strategies of Older Underserved Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
- Employment, Relationship, and Parenting Stress Among Post-9/11 Veterans: Life Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on US military veterans' health, wellbeing, and care engagement. Healthcare systems like VA need additional information about the pandemic's biopsychosocial impacts and how a Whole Health approach may help to address them.
objectiveTo examine how the pandemic has affected veterans' health, wellbeing, and engagement in the VA Whole Health System of Care.
methodWe conducted qualitative interviews with 40 veterans at a large multicampus VA healthcare system during the pandemic. Informed by a Whole Health approach, interviews used open-ended questions to holistically explore pandemic impacts on mental and physical health, healthcare access and engagement, social support, coping strategies, and use of VA healthcare and wellness services. Interviews were conducted by telephone, audio-recorded, and analyzed using a matrix-based technique. Interviews were supplemented by an original survey assessing pandemic impacts; descriptive frequencies were calculated to describe and characterize the interviewed sample. INTERVIEW
resultsNearly, all participating veterans described significant pandemic impacts on their wellbeing, especially loneliness and sorrow stemming from isolation and disruptions to ordinary routines. These emotional impacts-sometimes combined with new constraints on care access and personal mobility-disrupted veterans' health plans and sometimes deterred engagement in both routine and wellness care. Veterans already struggling with chronic mental and physical health conditions and those who experienced transitions or losses during the pandemic described the most severe impacts on their wellbeing. Virtual VA wellness services, especially health coaching and mind-body wellness groups, were a key source of support and connection for those who engaged in them.
conclusionWe discuss the implications of our findings for care systems attempting to implement a Whole Health System of Care, including how they can address postpandemic barriers to engagement in healthcare and wellness programs, and how wellness programs can be leveraged to support those most at risk after the COVID-19 pandemic and in future crises.
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