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What Influences Mental Health Treatment among Military Veterans?

Reents, Lawrence Paul, Sr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1463936747

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2016, Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Youngstown State University, Department of Criminal Justice and Consumer Sciences.
The purpose of this research is to determine what influences Veterans and their mental health treatment. This topic matters on a personal level for me as I am a Veteran and have had friends commit suicide. This topic matters on a much broader level for the many families out there losing their loved ones on a daily basis. It matters for those Veterans who sacrificed so much. Others in the past have focused on combat, PTSD/mental health, quality of care, self-medicating and the effect each had on the Veteran. The theory guiding this project was that once the influencers are identified in the Veteran’s mental health treatment, it would then be possible to use those, in such a way, to influence future Veterans and current Veterans who need the treatment but choose not to. This thesis uses a secondary data analysis research design with 1,888 Veterans from the 2013 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The results showed that there was no correlation with mental health treatment and age, gender, race, combat pay, income, and drug and alcohol abuse. The correlations were with medication for mental health treatment and mental illness severity. Future focus should be more personal as in surveys or direct interviews as the information will address issues that were beyond the scope of this thesis. This will allow better acknowledgement of some of the outside influences, like age, income, marital status or roles that family and friends may play. This could also determine whether Veterans feel that medication helps or if they simply take it because they are told to.
John Hazy, PhD (Committee Chair)
Richard Rogers, PhD (Committee Member)
Derick Young (Committee Member)
67 p.
Health Care; Mental Health; Military Studies; Sociology
Veterans Health; Mental Health; PTSD; Quality of Care; Military Veterans

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  • Reents, Sr., L. P. (2016). What Influences Mental Health Treatment among Military Veterans? [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1463936747

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reents, Sr., Lawrence. What Influences Mental Health Treatment among Military Veterans? 2016. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1463936747.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Reents, Sr., Lawrence. "What Influences Mental Health Treatment among Military Veterans?" Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1463936747

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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