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ArticleHealth & social care in the community2022

Families' experiences of supporting Australian veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) to seek help for mental health problems.

Sharon Lawn, Elaine Waddell, Wavne Rikkers, Louise Roberts, Tiffany Beks, David Lawrence, Pilar Rioseco, Tiffany Sharp, Ben Wadham, Galina Daraganova and 1 more

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Article in Health & social care in the community, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Sharon LawnFlinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5464-8887
Elaine WaddellFlinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6336-1087
Wavne RikkersCurtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Louise RobertsFlinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Tiffany BeksUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
David LawrenceCurtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Pilar RiosecoAustralian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tiffany SharpFlinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Ben WadhamFlinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1340-3485
Galina DaraganovaAustralian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Miranda Van HooffMilitary and Emergency Services Health Australia (MESHA), The Hospital Research Foundation Group, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Flinders University · AUThe University of Western Australia · AUAustralian Institute of Family Studies · AUEastern Health · AUUniversity of Calgary · CAUniversity of South Australia · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this phenomenological study was to describe families' experiences of supporting veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) (known also as public safety personnel) to seek help for a mental health problem. In-depth semi-structured open-ended interviews were undertaken with 25 family members of Australian veterans and ESFRs. Fourteen participants were family members of police officers. Data were analysed thematically. Participants described a long and difficult journey of supporting the person's help-seeking across six themes. Traumatic exposures, bullying in the workplace and lack of organisational support experienced by veterans/ESFRs caused significant family distress. Families played a vital role in help-seeking but were largely ignored by veteran/ESFR organisations. The research provides a rich understanding of distress and moral injury that is experienced not only by the service members but is transferred vicariously to their family within the mental health help-seeking journey. Veteran and ESFR organisations and mental health services need to shift from a predominant view of distress as located within an individual (intrapsychic) towards a life-course view of distress as impacting families and which is more relational, systemic, cultural and contextual.

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Emergency RespondersMental Health ServicesVeteransAustraliaHumansMental Healthemergency service first respondersfamilieshelp-seekingmental healthmoral injuryposttraumatic stressveterans

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PMID35662301
PMCPMC10084143
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