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Karestan C Koenen1, Renee Goodwin, Elmer Struening, Fred Hellman, Mary Guardino.
Abstract
The behavioral model of service use was employed to identify predictors of mental health treatment seeking and treatment readiness among individual with PTSD (N = 2,713) in data from the 1996 National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day (NADSD). This model examines the contribution of predisposing (age, sex, marital status, race/ethnicity, education), enabling (employment, geographic location), perceived need (interference of symptoms with daily life), and evaluated need (other diagnoses) factors to treatment seeking and treatment readiness for individuals with PTSD. Results indicate that although need factors (interference by anxiety symptoms with daily life, diagnosis of panic disorder) are related to both receiving and readiness for treatment, predisposing (age, marital status, minority race) factors influence which individuals receive treatment for PTSD.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12602647 DOI: 10.1023/A:1022051009330
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Trauma Stress ISSN: 0894-9867