McCauley-Wittl, Celia L. and Mullins, Iris and Lee, Eunyoung and Hart, Virginia Improving Nurse Practitioner Awareness and Utilization of Mental Health Community Support Services and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services. 2020. Radford University, Dissertation. Radford University Scholars' Repository.
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Abstract
Almost 20 % of Americans live with a form of mental illness. Of that number, only half of those individuals receive needed mental health services. Barriers to mental health services were found on many levels: patient, provider, and healthcare system. One major barrier from the primary care provider standpoint was lack of knowledge and training in the mental health field. The purpose of this project was to improve access to care for patients in Virginia living with severe mental illness through the provision of nurse practitioner education of mental health community support services (MHCSS) and psychosocial rehabilitation services (PSR). A one group, pretest-posttest design involving a sample of N=31 nurse practitioners, nurse practitioner students, and other healthcare providers using a self-reported survey measured the effects of whether a pre-recorded online provider education webinar improved knowledge of, understanding eligibility criteria for MHCSS and PSR, as well as gauged the participants ability to appropriately make referrals MHCSS and PSR in case scenarios. The posttest results indicated that participants experienced an increase in knowledge as seen by their ability to avoid incorrect answer choices in the posttest purpose and eligibility criteria questions and that 60% of participants were able to correctly make referrals to non-traditional services in posttest case scenarios. Study limitations were small number of participants and short duration of study. Providing mental health education to NPs and NP students about MHCSS and PSR can improve their knowledge and ability to make appropriate referrals of adults living with serious mental illness to MHCSS and PSR. Keywords: mental health-primary care providers, resources, access to care, provider education, barriers, mental health skill-building, psychosocial rehabilitation, mental illness
| Item Type: | Dissertation |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mental health-primary care providers, resources, access to care, provider education, barriers, mental health skill-building, psychosocial rehabilitation, mental illness |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Radford University > School of Nursing |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2022 01:45 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2023 16:22 |
| URI: | http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/653 |
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