In this section, we explore respondents’ reported capability of delivering evidence-based care for PTSD and MDD. We report on whether participating providers were trained and inclined to implement ...guideline-concordant care for PTSD and MDD, and whether these providers reported using such care in their usual practice. The success of efforts to outsource mental health care for service members and veterans to civilian providers will depend, in part, on whether providers in the community are able and willing to deliver the high-quality care outlined in the VA/DoD CPGs for MDD and PTSD.32Based on previous reviews of provider practices,33we expected
Improving mental health outcomes for veterans and their families requires bothaccess to careand receipt ofhigh-quality care.12The overall goal of this study was to understand the readiness of ...community-based providers to deliver high-quality mental health care to veterans and their families once they access such care. The IOM has definedhigh-quality careas care that has been demonstrated as effective (i.e., evidence-based), safe, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.13Using this definition as a reference point for our study, we conceptualize the readiness of providers to deliver veteran-friendly, high-quality mental health care as having two main components (see
In this section, we explore the extent to which providers are “ready” to deliver culturally competent, high-quality care to veterans and their families. As we outlined in earlier sections, cultural ...competency can facilitate the development of therapeutic rapport and improve treatment receptivity, and the definition ofhigh-quality careincludes the use of treatments demonstrated to be effective (i.e., evidence-based). Thus, our concept of provider readiness in this study combines the domains of cultural competency and capacity to deliver high-quality care. We are particularly interested in understanding not only the proportion of providers that meet our definition of readiness, but also
MILITARY CULTURAL COMPETENCY Terri Tanielian; Coreen Farris; Caroline Epley ...
Ready to Serve,
11/2014
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In this section, we report our findings on the military cultural competency of survey respondents. Cultural competency includes their knowledge and comfort related to military culture, self-reported ...proficiency working with veteran and military-affiliated patients, and prior training in military culture. We also report how individual and practice characteristics are associated with these aspects of military cultural competency. Understanding which factors are related to being more “veteran friendly” can help direct military cultural competency training to the set of providers most in need. We hypothesized that military cultural competency would be low among those providers who do not already treat veteran
Chapter One: Introduction Farmer, Carrie M; Mandel, Daniel; Farris, Coreen ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
2015
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Chapter Five: Summary and Recommendations Farmer, Carrie M; Mandel, Daniel; Farris, Coreen ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
2015
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