Health Services Research & Development

• Elbogen EB, Dennis PA, Van Voorhees EE, Blakey SM, Johnson JL, Johnson SC, Wagner HR, Hamer RM, Beckham JC, Manly T, Belger A. Cognitive Rehabilitation With Mobile Technology and Social Support for Veterans With TBI and PTSD: A Randomized Clinical Trial. The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation. 2019 Jan 1; 34(1):1-10.
• Ryan-Gonzalez C, Kimbrel N, Meyer EC, Gordon EM, DeBeer BB, Gulliver SB, Elliott TR, Mosissette S. Differences in PTSD Symptoms among Post-9/11 Veterans with Blast- and Non-blast Mild TBI. Journal of Neurotrauma. 2018 Dec 4.
• Sripada RK, Hoff R, Pfeiffer PN, Ganoczy D, Blow FC, Bohnert KM. Latent classes of PTSD symptoms in veterans undergoing residential PTSD treatment. Psychological Services. 2018 Oct 4.
• Karatzias T, Hyland P, Bradley A, Fyvie C, Logan K, Easton P, Thomas J, Philips S, Bisson JI, Roberts NP, Cloitre M, Shevlin M. Is Self-Compassion a Worthwhile Therapeutic Target for ICD-11 Complex PTSD (CPTSD)? Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy. 2018 Oct 2; 1-13.
• Hundt NE, Smith TL, Fortney JC, Cully JA, Stanley MA. A qualitative study of veterans' mixed emotional reactions to receiving a PTSD diagnosis. Psychological Services. 2018 Jul 30.

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• Reduced Psychiatric Symptoms among Veterans Associated with More In-Person Social Contact but Not More Facebook Contact
  This study sought to determine whether social contact on Facebook—or in-person—is associated with a lower risk of screening positive for psychiatric disorders or suicidality in Veterans. Findings showed that although Veterans who frequently use Facebook also are typically social in their offline life, it is their offline (in-person) social interaction – not their social contact on Facebook – that ...
  
  Date: January 15, 2019
• Comparisons between VA and Non-VA Hospitals May Not Accurately Account for Mental Health Diagnoses
  While CMS publishes performance metrics on Hospital Compare, the risk-adjustment algorithms underlying these metrics are often unclear. Further, recently published literature questions whether existing risk-adjustment algorithms accurately adjust for mental health comorbidities. This study sought to determine whether current risk-adjustment algorithms fairly compare VA hospitals with non-federal h...
  
  Date: December 14, 2018
• Mantram Repetition Effective in Treatment of Veterans with PTSD
  Mantram teaches people to intentionally slow down thoughts and to practice “one-pointed attention” by silently repeating a personalized mantram – a word or phrase with spiritual meaning. This study compared Mantram therapy to Present-Centered Therapy – a supportive, problem-solving, non-trauma-focused treatment for PTSD. Findings showed that among Veterans with PTSD, individually-delivered Mantram...
  
  Date: June 20, 2018
• Medical Records Flag for Suicide Risk Increases VA Healthcare Visits among Veterans with Substance Use Disorder
  VA has identified suicide prevention as a top priority and established policies to include high-risk suicide patient record flags (PRFs) in the electronic medical record to alert providers of patient risk and increase healthcare contacts. This study sought to identify predictors of new PRFs and to describe healthcare use before and after PRF initiation among VA patients who had received a substanc...
  
  Date: June 8, 2018
• Evaluating Care Coordination Program for Pregnant Veterans
  The VA Maternity Care Coordinator Telephone Care Program (MCC-TCP) was created to support MCCs and includes outlines to guide up to eight calls with Veterans on topics such as VA maternity care benefits, chronic health problems, substance use cessation, and depression and suicide screening. Investigators evaluated the program and assessed its feasibility, as well as facilitators and barriers to it...
  
  Date: May 23, 2018

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• Management Briefs eBrief-no132 - Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma
  ...Management Briefs eBrief-no132 Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma Management eBrief...
  
  
• FORUM, May 2012: PTSD, suicide
  ...traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) literature consistently find that women experience PTSD at rates approximately twice that of men. The Role...
  
  
• Assessment and Treatment of Individuals with History of TBI and PTSD
  ...with PTSD? Is there evidence of harms? Are therapies for treatment of PTSD effective when PTSD is comorbid with mTBI? Is there evidence of harms?...
  
  
• Screening for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Primary Care: A Systematic Review
  ...event at some time during their lives and that approximately 8% will subsequently develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is one of...
  
  
• Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma: A Systematic Review
  ...Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma: A Systematic Review Interventions to Support Caregivers...
  
  

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• Treatment of PTSD in Veterans 09/08/2017
• Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD 07/19/2017

Other Resources

• Learn more about the studies being conducted within HSR&D's PTSD CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence) initiative.
• Learn more about the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative PTSD Veterans Choice Act Evaluation project.
• Visit the VA's Office of Research & Development healthcare topic overview section to learn more about milestones in VA's PTSD research, read research updates, and download research fact sheets.