Scholars@Duke
Alyssa Mansfield

Alyssa Mansfield

MMCi Instructor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
MMCi Program

Selected Publications

The 'Health-2-Go' programme's impact on all-cause mortality and clinic utilisation for children 5 and under: a retrospective cohort analysis of an iCCM intervention in Ghana's Barekese Subdistrict

Journal Article BMJ Global Health · March 13, 2025 Introduction The 'Health-2-Go' programme, which incorporates the integrated community case management strategy, aims to enhance healthcare access in rural Ghana by deploying trained and equipped community-based agents to manage the diagnosis and treatment ... Full text Cite

Cost-Effectiveness analysis of the surgical management of fractures in Malawi: An economic evaluation of a high and low-income country surgical collaboration.

Journal Article Injury · April 2021 INTRODUCTION: Cost-effectiveness is an essential tool for identifying high-value interventions in resource-limited settings. This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the surgical management of fractures by surgical residents at Kamuzu Central ... Full text Link to item Cite

PTSD Care Among Veterans With and Without Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · June 1, 2017 OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether a co-occurring substance use disorder contributed to disparities in receipt of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specialty care or psychotherapy. METHODS: Logistic regression, c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder and incident heart failure among a community-based sample of US veterans.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · April 2015 OBJECTIVES: We investigated the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and incident heart failure in a community-based sample of veterans. METHODS: We examined Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System outpatient medical records ... Full text Link to item Cite

One day at a time: The experiences of partners of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal Article Professional Psychology: Research and Practice · January 1, 2014 The intimate partners of veterans living with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often have few opportunities to articulate in their own words how the disorder affects them and their families. Besides relationship challenges and stress associated with as ... Full text Cite

Identifying priorities for patient-centered outcomes research for serious mental illness.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · November 2012 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project was to engage a diverse group of stakeholders (N=38) to help establish priorities to guide patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) in serious mental illness. METHODS: Three meetings, two Web-based and one on site, w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews and health technology assessments: synthesis of guidance documents and the literature.

Journal Article Int J Technol Assess Health Care · January 2012 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to synthesize best practices for addressing clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews and health technology assessments (HTAs). METHODS: We abstracted information from guidance documents and methods manuals made ava ... Full text Link to item Cite

Deployment and mental health diagnoses among children of US Army personnel.

Journal Article Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med · November 2011 OBJECTIVE: To characterize the risk of mental health diagnoses among children of US military personnel associated with parental deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). DESIGN: Nonrandomized, retrospectiv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suicidal or self-harming ideation in military personnel transitioning to civilian life.

Journal Article Suicide Life Threat Behav · August 2011 Suicides have markedly increased among military personnel in recent years. We used path analysis to examine factors associated with suicidal/self-harming ideation among male Navy and Marine Corps personnel transitioning to civilian life. Roughly 7% of men ... Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding substance use in military spouses.

Journal Article J Clin Psychol Med Settings · June 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

Measurement invariance of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among U.S. military personnel.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2010 Studies have not examined the factor structure or measurement invariance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology using population-based data. Confirmatory factor analysis of the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) was conducted in a repr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Deployment and the use of mental health services among U.S. Army wives.

Journal Article N Engl J Med · January 14, 2010 BACKGROUND: Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have involved the frequent and extended deployment of military personnel, many of whom are married. The effect of deployment on mental health in military spouses is largely unstudied. METHODS: We exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Injury and fitness outcomes during implementation of physical readiness training.

Journal Article Int J Sports Med · July 2003 This study examined injury and physical fitness outcomes in Basic Combat Training (BCT) during implementation of Physical Readiness Training (PRT). PRT is the U.S. Army's emerging physical fitness training program. An experimental group (EG, n = 1284), whi ... Full text Link to item Cite

A latent variable model of evidence-based quality improvement for substance abuse treatment.

Journal Article J Behav Health Serv Res · May 2001 Attempts to improve the quality of substance abuse treatment are hampered by an inability to define specifically the elements of high quality of care and, more important, the lack of a research paradigm within which to study the necessary and sufficient el ... Full text Link to item Cite