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Despite the efforts of both the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Veterans Health Administration to enhance mental health services, many service members are not regularly seeking needed care when they have mental health sym...
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Despite the efforts of both the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Veterans Health Administration to enhance mental health services, many service members are not regularly seeking needed care when they have mental health symptoms or disorders. The research team hypothesized that mental health stigma may be a barrier to mental health treatment-seeking among military service members. Without appropriate treatment, these mental health symptoms or disorders can have wide-ranging and negative impacts on the quality of life and the social, emotional, and cognitive functioning of affected service members. The RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) was asked to inventory and assess stigma-reduction strategies across both the services and DoD as a whole, to identify strengths and gaps that should be addressed. Informed by this inventory and feedback from an expert panel, NDRI developed a set of recommended priorities for stigma reduction. These recommendations answered such questions as Where are there gaps in stigma-reduction strategies. What stigma-reduction strategies seem particularly promising. Which of the current stigma-reduction strategies should be continued or enhanced. and Where is there duplication or overlap, or alternatively, conflicting messages among current strategies. This report summarizes the findings of this assessment. The contents of this report will be of particular interest to policymakers in DoD, other command and line leadership, and mental health providers and other professionals.
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Evaluations are critical for assessing the impact of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) investments in suicide prevention and can be used as the basis for decisions about whether to sustain or scale up existing efforts. The Defense ...
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Evaluations are critical for assessing the impact of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) investments in suicide prevention and can be used as the basis for decisions about whether to sustain or scale up existing efforts. The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury asked the RAND Corporation to draw from the scientific literature and create a toolkit to guide future evaluations of DoD-sponsored suicide prevention programs (SPPs). The overall goal of the toolkit is to help those responsible for SPPs determine whether their programs produce beneficial effects and, ultimately, to guide the responsible allocation of scarce resources. This report summarizes the three complementary methods used to develop the RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit; it is meant to serve as a companion to the toolkit itself and to provide additional background for those who are interested in learning about the toolkit's development.
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The purpose of this report is to present findings based upon an independent assessment of the content, design, and dissemination of the Real Warriors Campaign. The assessment was conducted between January and August 2011. Launched...
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The purpose of this report is to present findings based upon an independent assessment of the content, design, and dissemination of the Real Warriors Campaign. The assessment was conducted between January and August 2011. Launched in 2009, the Real Warriors Campaign is a large-scale multimedia program designed to promote resilience, facilitate recovery, and support the reintegration of returning servicemembers, veterans, and their families. The campaign itself is fairly new; at the time of this report, there was the possibility of changes to the content or dissemination of the campaign because the contract to manage the campaign was being re-competed. Therefore, the assessment described in this report focuses on identifying which aspects of the campaign adhere to best practices for health communication campaigns and ways the campaign could improve both its content and its dissemination activities. To conduct the assessment we convened an expert panel, conducted telephone discussions with organizations that partnered with the campaign, performed a content analysis of the campaign s website, analyzed communication measures collected by the campaign, and reviewed relevant documents describing the design and development of the campaign.
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