2011
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-31
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The stigma of mental health problems and other barriers to care in the UK Armed Forces

Abstract: BackgroundAs with the general population, a proportion of military personnel with mental health problems do not seek help. As the military is a profession at high risk of occupational psychiatric injury, understanding barriers to help-seeking is a priority.MethodParticipants were drawn from a large UK military health study. Participants undertook a telephone interview including the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ); a short measure of PTSD (Primary Care PTSD, PC-PTSD); a series of questions about service util… Show more

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“…There are around 2.8 million veterans living in the UK (The Royal British Legion, 2014) of which a significant minority experience mental health difficulties (Iversen et al, 2011). In the UK the National Health Service (NHS) is responsible for providing health care to veterans supported by a number of charitable and for-profit organizations.…”
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“…There are around 2.8 million veterans living in the UK (The Royal British Legion, 2014) of which a significant minority experience mental health difficulties (Iversen et al, 2011). In the UK the National Health Service (NHS) is responsible for providing health care to veterans supported by a number of charitable and for-profit organizations.…”
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“…Findings suggest that factors including stigma (Iversen et al, 2011), negative attitudes about mental health services (Kim, Britt, Klocko, Riviere, & Adler, 2011) and poor recognition of the need for treatment (Britt, Wright, & Moore, 2012) are barriers to help-seeking for veterans. Furthermore, practical barriers to accessing care are deemed important, including problems with the availability and accessibility of services (Brown, Creel, Engel, Herrell, & Hoge, 2011), waiting times (Damron-Rodriguez et al, 2004) and excessive paperwork (Westermeyer, Canive, Thuras, Chesness, & Thompson, 2002).…”
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“…The purpose of screening for PTSD would be to improve the prognosis of the condition by the use of efficacious treatment, but identification of PTSD may not be helpful if a large proportion of cases can improve without treatment (Rona et al, 2005). This issue is also complicated by what is known about help seeking and stigma and only a proportion of personnel with PTSD will actually seek help (Ben-Zeev et al, 2012;Iversen et al, 2011;Langston et al, 2010).…”
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“…In line with the chief findings of many psychological studies of military ''barriers to care'' (Hoge et al 2004;Kim et al 2010;Iversen et al 2011;Ben-Zeev et al 2012), these armed forces have focused on fighting self-images of weakness or fear of such views. Education programs are developed to deal with stigma, which emphasize, for instance, that seeking help is a sign of strength (Iversen et al 2011).…”
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