Chaplains&apos; Engagement with Suicidality among Their Service Users: Findings from the VA/DoD Integrated Mental Health Strategy.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Chaplains play an important role in supporting the mental health of current and former military personnel; in this study, the engagement of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Army, Navy, and Air Force chaplains with suicidality among their service users were examined. An online survey was used to collect data from 440 VA and 1,723 Department of Defense (DoD) chaplains as part of the VA/DoD Integrated Mental Health Strategy. Differences were noted for demographics, work setting characteristics, encountering suicidality, and self-perceived preparation for dealing with suicidality. Compared to DoD chaplains, VA chaplains encounter more at-risk service users, yet feel less prepared for dealing with suicidality.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Suicide Life Threat Behav

Title: Suicide & life-threatening behavior

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1943-278X

ISSN (Print): 0363-0234

Publication date (Electronic): Apr 2016

Volume: 46

Issue: 2

Affiliations

[1 ] US Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

[2 ] Mental Health and Chaplaincy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

[3 ] Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

[4 ] Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

[5 ] Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

[6 ] Psychological Health Promotion, Deployment Health Clinical Center, Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

[7 ] Departments of Psychiatry and Health Policy, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society & Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Article

DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12184

PubMed ID: 26255592

SO-VID: f670c9f5-30fe-442e-8f5b-5ba275c9615b

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Smart Citations

Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting

View Citations

See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.

Cited by 3

See all cited by

Chaplains' Engagement with Suicidality among Their Service Users: Findings from the VA/DoD Integrated Mental Health Strategy.

Read this article at