Publications by authors named "Linda M Kawentel"
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- The study emphasizes the need for trauma-focused treatment for veterans experiencing military sexual trauma (MST) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), highlighting the low engagement in PTSD specialty care among Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients.
- It analyzed data from over 84,000 veterans who screened positive for MST to examine differences in the likelihood of initiating and receiving adequate PTSD specialty care, revealing low initiation rates for both veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) and those without.
- The findings indicate that factors such as race and age affect access to PTSD care, but SMI status did not significantly impact care initiation; the study calls for further exploration of barriers to care for veterans with MST and PTSD.
Implementation assessment plans are crucial for clinical trials to achieve their full potential. Without a proactive plan to implement trial results, it can take decades for one-fifth of effective interventions to be adopted into routine care settings. The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development is undergoing a systematic transformation to embed implementation planning in research protocols through the Cooperative Studies Program, its flagship clinical research program.
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