Mental health service use by cleanup workers in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

ABSTRACT: High rates of mental health (MH) problems have been documented among disaster relief workers. However, few workers utilize MH services, and predictors of service use among this group remain unexplored. The purpose of this study was to explore associations between predisposing, illness-related, and enabling factors from Andersen's behavioral model of treatment-seeking and patterns of service use among participants who completed at least one full day of cleanup work after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and participated in home visits for the NIEHS GuLF STUDY (N = 8931). Workers reported on MH symptoms and whether they had used counseling or medication for MH problems since the oil spill. Hierarchical logistic regression models explored associations between predictors and counseling and medi

SUBMITTER: Lowe SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4363993 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature