Behavioral Health and Service Use Among Civilian Wives of Service Members and Veterans, Evidence from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health

Author

Breslau; Joshua

Year

2015

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

11-Dec-2025

Keywords

Health Sciences ; Psychology

Description

Access to quality behavioral health treatment for eligible family of service members and veterans is an important and growing concern (Brown et al., 2015; Lazare, 2013; U.S. Department of Defense [DoD], 2014; U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO], 2011), alongside concerns for the quality of behavioral health treatment offered to the service members and veterans themselves. However, the use of behavioral health treatment in this population has not been compared with the general population, partly because of the difficulty of obtaining epidemiologic data that contain not only large enough sample sizes, but also assessments of behavioral health status and assessments of...