Women Veterans with Depression in Veterans Health Administration Primary Care: An Assessment of Needs and Preferences
| Autor: | Andrew B. Lanto, Duncan G. Campbell, Edmund F. Chaney, Thomas J. Waltz, Laura M. Bonner, Elizabeth M. Yano, Cory Bolkan, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Teri D. Davis, Kara Zivin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Veterans Health Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences Social support 0302 clinical medicine Patient satisfaction Surveys and Questionnaires Maternity and Midwifery Health care medicine Prevalence Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Veterans Primary Health Care business.industry Depression Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Social Support Patient Preference medicine.disease Mental health Comorbidity United States 030227 psychiatry Integrated care Patient Health Questionnaire Patient Outcome Assessment United States Department of Veterans Affairs Patient Satisfaction business Needs Assessment |
| Zdroj: | Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 26(6) |
| ISSN: | 1878-4321 |
| Popis: | Depression is the most prevalent mental health condition in primary care (PC). Yet as the Veterans Health Administration increases resources for PC/mental health integration, including integrated care for women, there is little detailed information about depression care needs, preferences, comorbidity, and access patterns among women veterans with depression followed in PC.We sampled patients regularly engaged with Veterans Health Administration PC. We screened 10,929 (10,580 men, 349 women) with the two-item Patient Health Questionnaire. Of the 2,186 patients who screened positive (2,092 men, 94 women), 2,017 men and 93 women completed the full Patient Health Questionnaire-9 depression screening tool. Ultimately, 46 women and 715 men with probable major depression were enrolled and completed a baseline telephone survey. We conducted descriptive statistics to provide information about the depression care experiences of women veterans and to examine potential gender differences at baseline and at seven month follow-up across study variables.Among those patients who agreed to screening, 20% of women (70 of 348) had probable major depression, versus only 12% of men (1,243 of 10,505). Of the women, 48% had concurrent probable posttraumatic stress disorder and 65% reported general anxiety. Women were more likely to receive adequate depression care than men (57% vs. 39%, respectively; p .05); 46% of women and 39% of men reported depression symptom improvement at the 7-month follow-up. Women veterans were less likely than men to prefer care from a PC physician (p .01) at baseline and were more likely than men to report mental health specialist care (p .01) in the 6 months before baseline.PC/mental health integration planners should consider methods for accommodating women veterans unique care needs and preferences for mental health care delivered by health care professionals other than physicians. |
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