Development of a Perceived Access Inventory for Community Care Mental Healthcare Services for Veterans.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Access to high-quality healthcare, including mental healthcare, is a high priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Meaningful monitoring of progress will require patient-centered measures of access. To that end, we developed the Perceived Access Inventory focused on access to VA mental health services (PAI-VA). However, VA is purchasing increasing amounts of mental health services from community mental health providers. In this paper, we describe the development of a PAI for users of VA-funded community mental healthcare that incorporates access barriers unique to community care service use and compares the barriers most frequently reported by veterans using community mental health services to those most frequently reported by veterans using VA mental heal

SUBMITTER: Pyne JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7521611 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature