Usual Care for Rural Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

ConclusionsFindings suggest that veterans diagnosed with PTSD who receive their mental health treatment in large and medium CBOCs are likely to receive medication management, and very few veterans received evidence‐based psychotherapy. There may be ways to increase access to evidence‐based psychotherapy by expanding the use of interactive video to connect specialty mental health providers with patients, hosted either in CBOCs or in home‐based care, and to offer more group‐based therapies.

Source: The Journal of Rural Health - December 31, 2016 Category: Rural Health Authors: Kathleen M. Grubbs, John C. Fortney, Tim Kimbrell, Jeffrey M. Pyne, Teresa Hudson, Dean Robinson, William Mark Moore, Paul Custer, Ronald Schneider, Paula P. Schnurr Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research