Core Mental Health Clinician Capacity and Use Rates in the US Military.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Active duty service members have higher mental health stress and cannot choose where to live. It is imperative to understand how geographic access may be associated with their ability to obtain mental health treatment and how the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with these patterns.

Objective

To identify changes in the prevalence and intensity of mental health care use when service members experienced changes in core mental health clinician (defined to include psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, clinical psychologists and social workers, and marriage and family therapists) capacity in their communities and whether patterns changed from before to after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort

SUBMITTER: Shen YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411380 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature