title: Posttraumatic stress disorder and treatment seeking in a national screening sample.
abstract: The behavioral model of service use was employed to identify predictors of mental health treatment seeking and treatment readiness among individual with PTSD (N = 2,713) in data from the 1996 National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day (NADSD). This model examines the contribution of predisposing (age, sex, marital status, race/ethnicity, education), enabling (employment, geographic location), perceived need (interference of symptoms with daily life), and evaluated need (other diagnoses) factors to treatment seeking and treatment readiness for individuals with PTSD. Results indicate that although need factors (interference by anxiety symptoms with daily life, diagnosis of panic disorder) are related to both receiving and readiness for treatment, predisposing (age, marital status, minority race) factors influence which individuals receive treatment for PTSD.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Karestan C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Koenen
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: Elmer
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Struening
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hellman
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guardino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States