Providing Mental Health Services to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Veterans

Completed

Conditions studied: Mental Health Services

In brief

The purpose of this study is to gather information from VISN 19 Denver VA mental health professionals regarding their perspectives of necessary resources to provide best practice mental health service to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/ Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Veterans. Specifically, this study aims to describe provider perspectives regarding the following: a) clinical needs of OIF/OEF Veterans; b) collaboration and referral processes; c) barriers to providing optimal treatment to this cohort d) provider needs and resources that may improve service delivery to this cohort; e) provider perspectives regarding psychiatric outcomes in this cohort; and f) professional satisfaction. Support for this study is provided by previous research evaluating Veteran's Administration (VA) needs to provide service to OIF/OEF Veterans (Sayer, et al. 2009; Friedmann-Sanchez, et al. 2008). The above information will be obtained using semi-structured interview. Hypotheses are not provided as this is an exploratory qualitative study.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01476618
Run by
VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
People needed
13
Starts
2011-07-01
Expected to finish
2014-03-01
Last updated by the study team
2015-06-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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