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doi:10.1155/2011/192186 Research Article Mental Health Treatment Involvement and Religious Coping among African American, Hispanic, and White Veterans of the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan (2011)
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@MISC{Greenawalt11doi:10.1155/2011/192186research,
author = {David S. Greenawalt and Jack Y. Tsan and Nathan A. Kimbrel and Eric C. Meyer and Marc I. Kruse and David F. Tharp and Suzy Bird Gulliver and Ra B. Morissette},
title = {doi:10.1155/2011/192186 Research Article Mental Health Treatment Involvement and Religious Coping among African American, Hispanic, and White Veterans of the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although racial/ethnic differences have been found in the use of mental health services for depression in the general population, research among Veterans has produced mixed results. This study examined racial/ethnic differences in the use of mental health services among 148 Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans with high levels of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and evaluated whether religious coping affected service use. No differences between African American, Hispanic, and Non-Hispanic white Veterans were found in use of secular mental health services or religious counseling. Women Veterans were more likely than men to seek secular treatment. After controlling for PTSD symptoms, depression symptom level was a significant predictor of psychotherapy attendance but not medication treatment. African American Veterans reported higher levels of religious coping than whites. Religious coping was associated with participation in religious counseling, but not secular mental health services. 1.
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religious coping african american white veteran religious counseling secular mental health service racial ethnic difference mental health service affected service use woman veteran original work secular treatment non-hispanic white veteran psychotherapy attendance mixed result operation enduring iraqi freedom unrestricted use general population african american veteran oef oif high level ptsd symptom posttraumatic stress disorder significant predictor medication treatment
