Promoting help seeking to veterans: A comparison of public messaging strategies to enhance the use of the veterans crisis line

Crisis

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 53-62

  Karras, Elizabeth ^a,b   Lu, Naiji ^c   Elder, Heather ^a,c   Tu, Xin ^b,c   Thompson, Caitlin ^d   Tenhula, Wendy ^d   Batten, Sonja V ^d,e   Bossarte, Robert M ^a,d,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^e BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^f WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaigns; Crisis line; Military; Public messaging; Veterans

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOTLINE; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VETERAN;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 85014460287     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000418     Document Type: Article

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