Mental health follow-up and treatment engagement following suicide risk screening in the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding the extent to which population-level suicide risk screening facilities follow-up and engagement in mental health treatment is important as engaging at-risk individuals in treatment is critical to reducing suicidal behaviors.

Objective

To evaluate mental health follow-up and treatment engagement in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) following administration of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) screen, a component of the VHA's universal suicide risk screening program.

Design

This cross-sectional study used data from VA's Corporate Data Warehouse.

Settings

140 VHA Medical Centers.

Participants

Patients who completed the C-SSRS screen in ambulatory care between October 1, 2018-September 30, 2020.

Exposure</

SUBMITTER: Bahraini N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8929551 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature