Families' experiences of supporting Australian veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) to seek help for mental health problems.
emergency service first responders
families
help-seeking
mental health
moral injury
posttraumatic stress
veterans
Journal
Health & social care in the community
ISSN: 1365-2524
Titre abrégé: Health Soc Care Community
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306359
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2022
11 2022
Historique:
revised:
26
03
2022
received:
04
08
2021
accepted:
05
05
2022
pubmed:
7
6
2022
medline:
20
12
2022
entrez:
6
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The objective of this phenomenological study was to describe families' experiences of supporting veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) (known also as public safety personnel) to seek help for a mental health problem. In-depth semi-structured open-ended interviews were undertaken with 25 family members of Australian veterans and ESFRs. Fourteen participants were family members of police officers. Data were analysed thematically. Participants described a long and difficult journey of supporting the person's help-seeking across six themes. Traumatic exposures, bullying in the workplace and lack of organisational support experienced by veterans/ESFRs caused significant family distress. Families played a vital role in help-seeking but were largely ignored by veteran/ESFR organisations. The research provides a rich understanding of distress and moral injury that is experienced not only by the service members but is transferred vicariously to their family within the mental health help-seeking journey. Veteran and ESFR organisations and mental health services need to shift from a predominant view of distress as located within an individual (intrapsychic) towards a life-course view of distress as impacting families and which is more relational, systemic, cultural and contextual.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35662301
doi: 10.1111/hsc.13856
pmc: PMC10084143
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e4522-e4534Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Health and Social Care in the Community published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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