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PUBLICATIONS

Research Center Publications:

What Rural Primary Care Physicians Need to Know about Treating Patients with Mental Health Diagnoses Webcast
Identifying stakeholders to pay for enhanced depression treatment in rural populations: Working Paper
Identifying at-risk rural areas for targeting enhanced schizophrenia treatment: Policy Brief
Distance learning in depression for rural primary care providers: Web cast
Community level risk factors for depression hospitalizations ( Policy Brief, Working Paper, Executive Summary)
Differential Effectiveness of Enhanced Depression Treatment for Rural and Urban Primary Care Patients (Executive Summary, Working Paper, Web cast)
Preventing Hospitalization in Depressed Rural Patients ( Policy Brief, Executive Summary, Web cast)

The "Letters to the Field" are informational newsletters published periodically. Topics will include recent developments in the field of rural mental health as they apply to isolated "frontier" rural areas.

  • Letter to the Field No. 1 New Rural Mental Health Services Resource Center Being Established (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 2 Focusing on "Frontier": Isolated Rural America (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 3 Telemental Health Services In U.S. Frontier Areas (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 4 Access to Mental Health Services in Frontier America (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 5 The Role of Rural Primary Care Physicians in the Provision of Mental Health Services (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 6 Frontier Mental Health Strategies: Integrating, Reaching Out, Building Up and Connecting (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 7 Delivering Mental Health Services to the Seriously Mentally Ill in Frontier Areas: Evidence from Five States (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 8 General Models for Delivering Mental Health Services to the Seriously Mentally Ill in Frontier Areas (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 9 Managed Behavioral Health Care in the Frontier (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 10 The Role of Rural Primary Care Providers in the Provision of Mental Health Services: Voices from the Plains (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 11 The Availability of Health and Mental Health Providers by Population Density (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 12 Cost Dynamics Of Frontier Mental Health Services (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 13 Client Outcomes And Costs In Frontier Mental Health Organizations (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 14 Effective Management Strategies For Frontier Mental Health Organizations (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 15 Surveillance of Demand for Mental Health Services in Frontier Areas (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 16 Organization and Delivery of Mental Health Services to Adolescents and Children in Frontier Areas (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 17 Delivering Mental Health Services to Children and Adolescents in Frontier Areas: Parent and Provider Views (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 18 Low Density Counties with Different Types of Sociodemographic, Economic and Health/Mental Health Characteristics (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 19 Telemental Health Services in Frontier Areas: Provider and Consumer Perspectives (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 20 Mental Health Service Utilization in Rural and Non-Rural Areas (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 21 Aging, Mental Illness, and the Frontier (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 22 Defining and Describing Frontier Areas in the United States: An Update (Date of Publication: December 2000)

  • Letter to the Field No. 23 Problems Faced By Consumers Of Mental Health Services Out In A Frontier Community (Date of Publication: December 2000)

Other Publications:

  • Booth, B. M., Fortney, S.M., Fortney, J.C., Curran, G.M. and Kirchner, J.E. (2001). Short-term course of drinking in an untreated sample of at-risk drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 580-588.

  • Booth, B. M., Kirchner, J., Fortney, J., Ross, R., & Rost, K. (2000). Rural at-risk drinkers: Correlates and one-year use of alcohol services. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 267-277.

  • Borowsky, S.J., Nelson, D.B, Fortney, J.C., Hedeen, A.N., Bradley, J.L and Chapko, M.K. (2002). VA community-based outpatient clinics: Performance measures based on patient perceptions of care. Medical Care, 40, 578-586.

  • Chapko, M.K., Borowsky, S.J., Fortney, J.C., Hedeen, A.N., Hoegle, M., Maciejewski, M.L. and Lukas, C.V. (2002). Evaluation of the department of veterans affairs community-based outpatient clinics. Medical Care, 40, 555-560.

  • Fortney, J. C., Booth, B. M., Kirchner, J.E., Williams, D. K. and Xiaotong H. (2003). Differences between physical and behavioral health benefits in the health plans of at-risk drinkers. Psychiatric Services, 54, 97-102.

  • Fortney, J., Sullivan, G., Williams, K., Jackson, C., Morton, S.C. and Koegel, P. (2003). Measuring continuity of care for clients of public mental health systems. Health Services Research, 38, 1157-1176.

  • Fortney, J. C., Booth, B. M., Kirchner, J.E., and Xiaotong H. (2003). Rural-urban differences in health care benefits of a community-based sample of at-risk drinkers. The Journal of Rural Health, 19, 292-298.

  • Fortney, J.C., Borowsky, S.J., Hedeen, A.N., Maciejewski, M.L. and Chapko, M.K. (2002). VA community-based outpatient clinics: Access and utilization performance measures. Medical Care, 40, 561-569.

  • Fortney, J., Thill, J. C., Zhang, M., Duan, N., & Rost, K. (2001). Provider choice and utility loss due to selective contracting in rural and urban areas. Medical Care Research and Review, 58, 60- 75.

  • Fortney, J., Rost, K., Zhang, M., & Pyne, J. (2001). The relationship between quality and outcomes in routine depression care. Psychiatric Services, 52, 56-62.

  • Fortney J., Rost K., and Warren J. (2000). Comparing Alternative Methods of Measuring Geographic Access to Health Services. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 1, 173-184.

  • Fortney, J. C., Booth, B. M., & Curran, G. M. (1999). Do patients with alcohol dependence use more services? A comparative analysis with other chronic disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 127-133.

  • Fortney, J. C., Owen, R. R., & Clothier, J. (1999). Impact of travel distance on the disposition of patients presenting for emergency psychiatric care. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 26, 104-108.

  • Fortney J., Rost K., and Zhang M. (1999). The impact of geographic accessibility on the intensity and quality of depression treatment. Medical Care, 37, 884-893.

  • Fortney, J.C., Rost, K.M., and Zhang, M. (1998). A joint choice model of the decision to seek depression treatment and choice of provider sector. Medical Care, 36, 307-320.

  • Hedeen, A.N., Heagerty, P.J., Fortney, J.C., Borowsky, S.J., Walder, D.J. and Chapko, M.K. (2002). VA community-based outpatient clinics: Quality of care performance measures. Medical Care, 40, 570-577.

  • Kirchner, J.E., Curran, G.M., Thrush, C.R., Owen, R.R., Fortney, J.C. and Booth, B.M. (2002). Addictions Services: Depressive Disorders and Alcohol Dependence in a Community Population. Community Mental Health Journal, 38, 361-373.

  • Maciejewski, M.L., Chapko, M.K., Hedeen, A.N. and Fortney, J.C. (2002). VA community-based outpatient clinics: Cost performance measures. Medical Care, 40, 587-595.

  • Pyne, J. M., Kuc, E.J., Schroeder, P.J. Fortney, J.C., Edlund, M. and Sullivan, G. (2004). Relationship between perceived stigma and depression severity. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192, 278-283.

  • Pyne, J. M., Rost, K. M., Zhang, M., Williams, D. K., Smith, J., & Fortney, J. (2003). Cost-effectiveness of a primary care depression intervention. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 18, 432-441.

  • Rost, K.M., Fortney, J., Fischer, E., and Smith, J. (2002). Use, quality and outcomes of care for mental health: The rural perspective. Medical Care Research & Review, 59, 231- 265.

  • Rost K., Fortney J., Zhang M., Smith J., and Smith G. (1999). Treatment of depression in rural Arkansas: Policy implications for improving care. Journal of Rural Health, 15, 308-315.

  • Rost, K.M., Zhang, M., Fortney, J.C., Smith, J.L. and Smith, G.R. (1998). Expenditures for the treatment of major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 883-888.

  • Rost, K. M., Zhang, M., Fortney, J., Smith, J., Coyne, J., & Smith, G. R., Jr. (1998). Persistently poor outcomes of undetected major depression in primary care. General Hospital Psychiatry, 20, 12-20.

  • Rost, K.M., Fortney, J.C., Zhang, M., Smith, J.L. and Smith, G.R. (1998). Rural-urban differences in depression treatment and suicidality. Medical Care, 36, 1098-1107.

  • Rost, K.M., Owen, R.R., Smith, J.L., and Smith, G.R. (1998). Rural-urban differences in service use and course of illness in bipolar disorder. Journal of Rural Health, 14, 36-43.

  • Rost, K.M., Smith, G.R. and Taylor, J.L. (1993). Rural-urban differences in stigma and the use of care for depressive disorders. Journal of Rural Health, 9, 57-62.

  • Smith, J.L., Rost, K.M., Nutting, P.A., Elliott, C.E., and Duan, N. (2000). A primary care intervention for depression. Journal of Rural Health, 16, 313-323.

  • Zhang M., Rost K., Fortney J., and Smith G.R. (1999). A Community Study of Depression Treatment and Employment Earnings. Psychiatric Services 50, 1209-1213.

  • Zhang M., Rost K., and Fortney J. (1999). Depression treatment and cost offset for rural community residents with depression. Journal of Social Service Research 25, 99-110.

  • Zhang, M., Rost, K. M., & Fortney, J. C. (1999). Earnings changes for depressed individuals treated by mental health specialists. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 108-114.

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Director: Dennis Mohatt M.A.; Deputy Director: Mimi McFaul PsyD
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This research conducted by the WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research is supported by Grant Number U1CRH03713-01-00 from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy (HRSA/ORHP).

 


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