Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in primary care : a systematic review / principal investigator, Michele Spoont ; investigators, Paul Arbisi, Steven Fu, Nancy Greer, Shannon Kehle-Forbes, Laura Meis ; research associate, Indulis Rutks.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Spoont, Michele, author.

Contributor:

United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Health Services Research and Development Service, issuing body.

Minneapolis VA Health Care System (U.S.). VA Evidence Synthesis Program

Evidence-based Synthesis Program (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--United States.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Medical screening--United States.

Medical screening.

Primary care (Medicine)--United States.

Primary care (Medicine).

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Primary Health Care.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Primary Health Care.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 63 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Services, 2013.

Summary:

To minimize treatment delays and to maximize population reach, Veterans Affairs (VA) established a screening program to facilitate identification of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their patients as they present in primary care clinics. Such screening programs may be helpful because primary care providers often have difficulty identifying PTSD in their patients and PTSD is frequently undertreated in the primary care setting. The premise of this type of screening program is to facilitate mental health treatment engagement earlier in the course of the illness and to engage patients in treatment who might otherwise not be identified as needing mental health care. Recently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report examining the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation services for military Veterans and service members with PTSD in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. As noted in the IOM report and elsewhere, successful screening programs utilize instruments that are simple, valid, precise, and acceptable both clinically and socially. To identify screening tools that are best suited to the primary care setting, this evidence synthesis report reviews the literature on the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of screening tools used and evaluated with a gold standard in a primary care setting.

Notes:

"Evidence-based synthesis program."

"January 2013."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-45).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (VA, viewed April 16, 2021).

OCLC:

863667448