التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Are veterans different? Understanding veterans’ help‐seeking behaviour for alcohol problems. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kiernan, Matthew D., Osbourne, Alison, McGill, Gill, Jane Greaves, Peta, Wilson, Gemma, Hill, Mick |
| المصدر: |
Health & Social Care in the Community; Sep2018, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p725-733, 9p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ALCOHOLISM treatment, CONCEPTUAL structures, HEALTH services accessibility, HELP-seeking behavior, INTERVIEWING, VETERANS, RESEARCH methodology, MENTAL health services, RESEARCH funding, QUALITATIVE research, JUDGMENT sampling, DATA analysis software |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ENGLAND |
| مستخلص: |
Abstract: Alcohol misuse in the United Kingdom’s veteran community is not an isolated phenomenon. Internationally, alcohol and wider substance misuse would appear to be an historic and current global issue within veteran communities. Although research has been undertaken both in the United Kingdom and the United States into why veterans are reluctant to seek help for mental health problems, little is understood as to why veterans encounter difficulties in engaging with treatment for alcohol misuse. The aim of this study was to understand why veterans in the United Kingdom are either reluctant or have difficulty in accessing help for alcohol problems. An applied social policy research methodology was used, employing in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 19 UK veterans in the North East of England, who had a history of alcohol misuse. The findings showed that participants appeared to excuse or normalise their excessive alcohol consumption, which led to a delay in meaningful engagement in substance misuse services, resulting in complex and complicated presentations to health and social care services. The findings of this study clearly suggest that veterans who misuse alcohol have a range of distinctive and unique difficulties that subtly differentiate them from the wider civilian substance misuse population, and that the use of peer‐support models would appear to mitigate against them disengaging from alcohol treatment services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
