VIRTUAL CARE: Connecting to a mental health team remotely by phone and video chats may help veterans diagnosed with PTSD without ready access to such services, a new study suggests.
For the many veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who don’t have access to a trained mental health care team, connecting with such a team remotely by phone and video chats may help, a new study suggests.
At least 500,000 veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system, or nearly 10% of the VHA population, were diagnosed with PTSD in 2012, the researchers write in JAMA Psychiatry.
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