Behavioral Health Care for National Guard and Reserve Service Members from the Military Health System
Abstract
More than 1 million reserve component personnelthose in the National Guard and reservesserve alongside the 1.3 million full-time service members of the U.S. militarys active component. Although providing ready access to high quality behavioral health care to all personnel is a high priority for the Military Health System, little is known about the quality of the care that reserve component personnel receive or how their care compares to that of members of the active component. Even less is known about how this care differs for remote reserve-component personnelthose who live in areas that are far from behavioral health care providers at a military treatment facility. Prior RAND research evaluated the quality of behavioral health care for servicemembers with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorders with a focus on identifying variations in care between remote and nonremote populations. This report uses the same measures to explore differences between active- and reserve-component personnel and between remote and non-remote reserve-component personnel. The findings and recommendations are intended to support policy- and decision making to help meet the behavioral health care needs of reserve-component service members.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1147477
Entities
People
- Carol P. Roth
- Harold A. Pincus
- Jessica L. Sousa
- Justin F. Hummer
- Kimberly A Hepner
- Ryan A. Brown
- Teague Runder
Organizations
- RAND Corporation