Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37273524›Full record

ArticlePreventive medicine reports2023

Geographical access to specialized behavioral health treatment programs for U.S. active duty service members and military families from military installations.

Jonathan H Cantor, Patricia K Tong

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Geographic Access to Mental Health Facilities for People with Disabilities.The journal of mental health policy and economics · 2026
    Article
  2. Army spouses' mental health treatment engagement: The role of barriers to care.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonathan H CantorRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Patricia K TongRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
RAND Corporation · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Active duty service members and their families have unique behavioral health care service needs. The purpose of this study is to determine geographical access to specialized behavioral health programs tailored to active duty U.S. service members and military families from military installations. This study generated network distance measures between active duty military installations and licensed substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facilities and mental health treatment facilities for 2015-2018 using data from national surveys administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and coordinates for active duty military installations from the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure Program. Using regression analysis, we calculated the share of installations that are at-risk of being remote from behavioral healthcare services. Separately, we calculated the share of treatment facilities accepting military insurance that offer specialized programs for active duty service members and/or military families within a 30-minute drive to an installation. Three out of 10 installations were at-risk of being remote from a behavioral health treatment facility. About 25 percent of behavioral health treatment facilities accepting military insurance within a 30-minute drive to an installation offered a specialized treatment program for active duty military or military families. Lack of a specialized treatment programs could suggest facilities may not be equipped to manage stressors unique to being in the military, and as a consequence, could adversely impact the health and well-being of this population. Further research is necessary to understand what specialized treatment programs for military populations entail.

Indexed as

AccessDrug use, substance abuseInequalitiesMental HealthMilitary and Veterans

Identifiers

PMID37273524
PMCPMC10236289
OpenAlexW4378576207

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.