@article{ref1,
title="Perceived helpfulness of treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: findings from the World Mental Health Surveys",
journal="Depression and anxiety",
year="2020",
author="Stein, Dan J. and Harris, Meredith G. and Vigo, Daniel V. and Tat Chiu, Wai and Sampson, Nancy and Alonso, Jordi and Altwaijri, Yasmin and Bunting, Brendan and Caldas-de-Almeida, Jose Miguel and Cía, Alfredo and Ciutan, Marius and Degenhardt, Louisa and Gureje, Oye and Karam, Aimee and Karam, Elie G. and Lee, Sing and Medina-Mora, Maria Elena and Mneimneh, Zeina and Navarro-Mateu, Fernando and Posada-Villa, Jose and Rapsey, Charlene and Torres, Yolanda and Carmen Viana, Maria and Ziv, Yuval and Kessler, Ronald C. and WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators, ",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Perceived helpfulness of treatment is an important healthcare quality indicator in the era of patient-centered care. We examine probability and predictors of two key components of this indicator for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).   METHODS: Data come from World Mental Health surveys in 16 countries. Respondents who ever sought PTSD treatment (n = 779) were asked if treatment was ever helpful and, if so, the number of professionals they had to see to obtain helpful treatment. Patients whose treatment was never helpful were asked how many professionals they saw. Parallel survival models were estimated for obtaining helpful treatment in a specific encounter and persisting in help-seeking after earlier unhelpful encounters.   RESULTS: Fifty seven percent of patients eventually received helpful treatment, but survival analysis suggests that it would have been 85.7% if all patients had persisted in help-seeking with up to six professionals after earlier unhelpful treatment. Survival analysis suggests that only 23.6% of patients would persist to that extent. Odds of ever receiving helpful treatment were positively associated with receiving treatment from a mental health professional, short delays in initiating help-seeking after onset, absence of prior comorbid anxiety disorders and childhood adversities, and initiating treatment before 2000. Some of these variables predicted helpfulness of specific treatment encounters and others predicted persistence after earlier unhelpful encounters.   CONCLUSIONS: The great majority of patients with PTSD would receive treatment they considered helpful if they persisted in help-seeking after initial unhelpful encounters, but most patients whose initial treatment is unhelpful give up before receiving helpful treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1091-4269",
doi="10.1002/da.23076",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/da.23076"
}