Feasibility and acceptability of VA CONNECT: Caring for our nation's needs electronically during the COVID-19 transition

COVID-19 has transformed day-to-day functioning and exacerbated mental health concerns. The current study examines preliminary feasibility and acceptability of a VA CONNECT – a novel 10-session, manualized telehealth group intervention integrating skills training and social support to develop a Safe...

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Autores principales: Gromatsky, Molly, Sullivan, Sarah R., Mitchell, Emily L., Spears, Angela Page, Edwards, Emily R., Goodman, Marianne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33422845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113700
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Goodman, Marianne
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description COVID-19 has transformed day-to-day functioning and exacerbated mental health concerns. The current study examines preliminary feasibility and acceptability of a VA CONNECT – a novel 10-session, manualized telehealth group intervention integrating skills training and social support to develop a Safety & Resilience Plan for Veterans experiencing COVID-related stress. Data from the first 20 participants support the intervention's feasibility and acceptability. Strengths, limitations, and suggestions for improvement of the intervention are noted. Collaboration with other VA researchers would aid in protocol dissemination and evaluation of VA CONNECT's utility for reducing COVID-19-related stress, loneliness, and mental health symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-97548142022-12-16 Feasibility and acceptability of VA CONNECT: Caring for our nation's needs electronically during the COVID-19 transition Gromatsky, Molly Sullivan, Sarah R. Mitchell, Emily L. Spears, Angela Page Edwards, Emily R. Goodman, Marianne Psychiatry Res Short Communication COVID-19 has transformed day-to-day functioning and exacerbated mental health concerns. The current study examines preliminary feasibility and acceptability of a VA CONNECT – a novel 10-session, manualized telehealth group intervention integrating skills training and social support to develop a Safety & Resilience Plan for Veterans experiencing COVID-related stress. Data from the first 20 participants support the intervention's feasibility and acceptability. Strengths, limitations, and suggestions for improvement of the intervention are noted. Collaboration with other VA researchers would aid in protocol dissemination and evaluation of VA CONNECT's utility for reducing COVID-19-related stress, loneliness, and mental health symptoms. Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press 2021-02 2020-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9754814/ /pubmed/33422845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113700 Text en Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_short Feasibility and acceptability of VA CONNECT: Caring for our nation's needs electronically during the COVID-19 transition
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754814/
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