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Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013.

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Hunt, MG; Cuddeback, GS; Bromley, E; Bradford, DW; Hoff, RA
Published in: Community Ment Health J
October 2019

Nationally representative data on mental health disorder prevalence are critical to set informed mental health priorities and policies. Data indicating mental health diagnoses within our nation's veteran population treated at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are available, but have yet to be examined for changing trends to inform both VHA and community care. We use VHA national program evaluation data from a time of increasing military enrollment (2007) to troop draw down (2013) to examine changes over time in the number of diagnoses in veterans receiving VHA services. The number of veterans in all diagnostic categories increased during our study period with the smallest increase in psychotic disorders (8%) and the largest in posttraumatic stress disorder (71%). Trends in behavioral health diagnoses among veterans have important implications for policy and clinician competencies within VHA and community providers as veteran mental health care needs change.

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Published In

Community Ment Health J

DOI

EISSN

1573-2789

Publication Date

October 2019

Volume

55

Issue

7

Start / End Page

1120 / 1124

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Veterans
  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • United States
  • Psychiatry
  • Mental Disorders
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Humans
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 4206 Public health
 

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Hunt, M. G., Cuddeback, G. S., Bromley, E., Bradford, D. W., & Hoff, R. A. (2019). Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013. Community Ment Health J, 55(7), 1120–1124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00437-1
Hunt, Marcia G., Gary S. Cuddeback, Elizabeth Bromley, Daniel W. Bradford, and Rani A. Hoff. “Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013.Community Ment Health J 55, no. 7 (October 2019): 1120–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00437-1.
Hunt MG, Cuddeback GS, Bromley E, Bradford DW, Hoff RA. Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013. Community Ment Health J. 2019 Oct;55(7):1120–4.
Hunt, Marcia G., et al. “Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013.Community Ment Health J, vol. 55, no. 7, Oct. 2019, pp. 1120–24. Pubmed, doi:10.1007/s10597-019-00437-1.
Hunt MG, Cuddeback GS, Bromley E, Bradford DW, Hoff RA. Changing Rates of Mental Health Disorders Among Veterans Treated in the VHA During Troop Drawdown, 2007-2013. Community Ment Health J. 2019 Oct;55(7):1120–1124.
Journal cover image

Published In

Community Ment Health J

DOI

EISSN

1573-2789

Publication Date

October 2019

Volume

55

Issue

7

Start / End Page

1120 / 1124

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Veterans
  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • United States
  • Psychiatry
  • Mental Disorders
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Humans
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 4206 Public health