Communication Preferences and Satisfaction of Secure Messaging Among Patients and Providers in the Military Healthcare System.

Introduction: Use of electronic secure messaging (SM) is rapidly growing in various healthcare settings. However, there is a large number of patients that choose not use SM or use it minimally. Thus, understanding preferences for patient-provider communication modalities is critically important, particularly among military healthcare beneficiaries.

Treatment-Seeking Beliefs and Behaviors in Air Force Nursing Personnel.

Introduction: Perceptions of stigma and barriers associated with seeking mental health services have been described in past research with military service members who reported or screened positively for mental health concerns or who reported an intention to seek care. The reported influence of stronger perceptions of stigma on treatment seeking has varied.

Materials And Methods: An anonymous, online survey was administered to Air Force nursing personnel (N = 250) at three locations to describe beliefs associated with seeking mental health treatment and to investigate the extent to which stigma and barriers, stress, and resilience were related to mental health treatment seeking.

Building academic-military research collaborations to improve the health of service members.

Background: Academic-military research collaborations are desirable for many reasons; however, little guidance in the literature exists to help researchers understand collaboration requirements.

Purpose: To describe the process for establishing academic-military research collaborations.

Method: Specific collaboration requirements researchers must be aware of are outlined, two case studies are provided, and opportunities for and challenges with collaborations are discussed.

A Concept Analysis of Stigma Perceived by Military Service Members Who Seek Mental Health Services.

Problem: The aim of this concept analysis is to clarify military service members' stigma associated with seeking mental health services (MHS). Since 2001, over 2 million military service members have been deployed for or assigned to support military operations. Many service members develop a mental health concern during or after a deployment.

Resilience, Stress, Stigma, and Barriers to Mental Healthcare in U.S. Air Force Nursing Personnel.

Background: Stigma may deter military service members from seeking mental health (MH) services. Previously, substantial proportions of U.S.

Evaluation of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System as a potential index model for Total Force Fitness.

This article reports the results of an evaluation of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) as a potential "index model" for the assessment of Total Force Fitness (TFF) in military personnel. The evaluation was conducted using descriptive categories developed by Firth and Smith for appraisal of potential TFF index models, and documents and publications related to BRFSS survey measures and methodology. Secondary analysis of data from military personnel responding to the 2010 BRFSS was used as "sample" data to assess relationships between the domains of TFF.

Assessment of military population-based psychological resilience programs.

Active duty service members' (ADSMs) seemingly poor adaptability to traumatic stressors is a risk to force health. Enhancing the psychological resilience of ADSMs has become a key focus of Department of Defense (DoD) leaders and the numbers of military programs for enhancing psychological resilience have increased. The purpose of this article is to describe the results of an assessment conducted to determine comprehensiveness of current psychological resilience building programs that target ADSMs.