Stress, Resilience, Stigma And Barriers To Mental Health Care In AF Nursing Staff

Abstract

Purpose: To assess if stigma and barriers to accessing mental health (MH) services in Air Force (AF) nurses are influenced by resilience, stress, demographics, deployment, use of MH services,or treatment-seeking. Methods: AF registered nurses (RNs) and medical technicians completed a survey, including demographic items, stigma scale, barriers scale, Conner-Davidson Resilience scale, and Perceived Stress Questionnaire. Sample: n=250 (RNs = 14 1, Medical Technicians = 104, Unknown= 5) Analysis: Descriptive statistics characterized demographics, MH access, deployment(s), and questionnaire scores. Multivariate analysis of variance examined stigma, barriers, stress, and resilience based on demographics and deployment. Logistic regression determined whether treatment-seeking was influenced by military grade, gender, stigma, barriers, stress, and resilience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 2017
Accession Number
AD1036751

Entities

People

  • Brenda Morgan
  • Mark B. Parshall
  • Stephen H. Hernandez

Organizations

  • 59th Medical Wing
  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Computer Programs
  • Congress
  • Government Procurement
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Intellectual Property
  • Knowledge Management
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • Medical Technicians
  • Mental Health Services
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Management

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

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