Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research
How to best engage rural veterans in mental health care is challenging and a topic of public health concern. Rural-dwelling veterans experience greater mental health burden and poorer outcomes than their urban counterparts, making rural veteran engagement in mental health care a public health concer...
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| author | Kara A. Zamora Traci H. Abraham Christopher J. Koenig Coleen C. Hill Jeffrey M. Pyne Karen H. Seal |
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| description | How to best engage rural veterans in mental health care is challenging and a topic of public health concern. Rural-dwelling veterans experience greater mental health burden and poorer outcomes than their urban counterparts, making rural veteran engagement in mental health care a public health concern. In this article, we describe how institutional notions of “patient engagement” align with or diverge from rural veteran patient experiences of engagement in mental health care. Using an adapted case study approach developed for our study, we detail the mental health care experiences of three rural-dwelling veteran participants. These case studies illustrate varied forms of mental health care engagement, including use of community resources and self-management activities, that might not be recognized by clinicians as contributing to mental health treatment. Our findings highlight how critical gaps in institutional definitions of care engagement fail to acknowledge veterans’ experiences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e88c33889d934e3b94462e3bd9fc18422022-12-21T18:24:12ZengPAGEPress PublicationsQualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare2532-20442020-10-014210.4081/qrmh.2020.8977Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care ResearchKara A. Zamora0Traci H. Abraham1Christopher J. Koenig2Coleen C. Hill3Jeffrey M. Pyne4Karen H. Seal5San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System; University of California, San FranciscoCentral Arkansas Veterans Affairs Health Care System; University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesSan Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System; San Francisco State University, San FranciscoSan Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care SystemCentral Arkansas Veterans Affairs Health Care System; University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesSan Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System; University of California, San FranciscoHow to best engage rural veterans in mental health care is challenging and a topic of public health concern. Rural-dwelling veterans experience greater mental health burden and poorer outcomes than their urban counterparts, making rural veteran engagement in mental health care a public health concern. In this article, we describe how institutional notions of “patient engagement” align with or diverge from rural veteran patient experiences of engagement in mental health care. Using an adapted case study approach developed for our study, we detail the mental health care experiences of three rural-dwelling veteran participants. These case studies illustrate varied forms of mental health care engagement, including use of community resources and self-management activities, that might not be recognized by clinicians as contributing to mental health treatment. Our findings highlight how critical gaps in institutional definitions of care engagement fail to acknowledge veterans’ experiences.https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/qrmh/article/view/8977Case Study ResearchPatient EngagementVeteransRural HealthMental HealthPatient-Centered Care Research |
| spellingShingle | Kara A. Zamora Traci H. Abraham Christopher J. Koenig Coleen C. Hill Jeffrey M. Pyne Karen H. Seal Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare Case Study Research Patient Engagement Veterans Rural Health Mental Health Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title | Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title_full | Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title_fullStr | Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title_short | Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research |
| title_sort | using an adapted case study approach to understand rural veteran experiences in patient engagement and patient centered care research |
| topic | Case Study Research Patient Engagement Veterans Rural Health Mental Health Patient-Centered Care Research |
| url | https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/qrmh/article/view/8977 |
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