Overcoming Barriers to Sustained Engagement in Mental Health Care: Perspectives of Rural Veterans and Providers

ConclusionsAttitudes and values, like self‐reliance, commonly associated with rural culture may play an important role in underutilization of needed mental health services. System support for peer and provider behaviors that generate trust and demonstrate caring may help overcome attitudinal barriers to treatment‐seeking and sustained engagement in mental health care among rural veterans.

Source: The Journal of Rural Health - August 23, 2016 Category: Rural Health Authors: Ellen P. Fischer, Jean C. McSweeney, Patricia Wright, Ann Cheney, Geoffrey M. Curran, Kathy Henderson, John C. Fortney Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research