Use Of Human Services Research Articles

Human Services Utilization Among Male IPV Perpetrators: Relationship to Timing and Completion of Batterer Intervention Programs.

Limited information exists on the extent to which male perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) are engaged in the use of human services for co-occuringpsychosocial and health issues. The current analysis uses administrative data from one batterer intervention program (BIP) and data from the local Department of Human Services to explore perpetrators' engagement with human services, and the relationship of that use to timing and completion of the BIP. Data for 330 adult male clients referred to the participating BIP from 2010 to 2015 were collected. A majority (63%) had engaged in at least one human service program. The most common kind of service was mental health (46%). The most specific service engagement was child welfare as a parent (41%). Engagement largely concluded prior to beginning the BIP. BIP completers had less service use overall. Future work should explore how these services could be utilized to improve the success of BIPs and reduce perpetration.

The Link Between Homeless Women's Mental Health and Service System Use

The Link Between Homeless Women's Mental Health and Service System Use

Increasing the Use of Formal Services by Caregivers of People with Dementia

This study evaluated the impact of an information and referral intervention designed to help family caregivers of people with dementia obtain needed health and human services. Caregivers (N = 608) of community-residing people with dementia were surveyed about their need for and use of community services. Of the 608 caregivers, 203 agreed to be referred to a staff member of an Alzheimer's Association chapter to get help finding needed health and community services. The results of a logistic regression indicated that education, marital status, and perceptions about the helpfulness of services were significant predictors of wanting a referral. The information and referral help given by staff of the Alzheimer's Association chapters resulted in a significant increase in the use of human services, but no change in the use of health services. Practice implications are discussed.

Predictors of health and human services use by persons with dementia and their family caregivers

The aim of this study was to identify predictors of the use of health and human services by community residing persons with dementia and their family caregivers. Telephone interviews were conducted with a sample of 608 primary caregivers of community residing persons with dementia who were randomly selected from a state-wide dementia registry. The Anderson Behavioral Model of Health Care Use was used as the analytic framework. Hierarchical ordinary least squares regression models were developed to analyze predictors of health and human services use. Predisposing, enabling, and need variables explained 40.9% of the variance in service use, 29.8% of the variance in health service use, and 38.1% of the variance in the use of human services. Enabling variables explained more variance in the use of health and human services than did need or predisposing variables. In contrast to the health services utilization literature that points to the importance of need variables, the results of this study lend support to findings in the caregiving literature that indicate that enabling variables are at least as important as need variables in predicting the use of community services by family caregivers of persons with dementia.

Injection drug users, crack smokers, and the use of human services

Russel S. Falck, MA, is project director, AIDS Prevention Research Project, Wright State University School of Medicine, 143 Biological Sciences Building, Dayton, OH 45435. Rebecca Saget Ashery, DSW, ACSW, LCSW-C, is senior social work specialty consultant, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, MD. Robert G. Carlson, PhD, is assistant professor and director of ethnographic research; Jichuan Wang, PhD, is assistant professor and research director; and Harvey A. Siegal, PhD, is professor and principal investigator , AIDS Prevention Research Project, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH According (U.S. people estimates, at least Department have once to 1.8 the smoked million in most their of crack recent Health people lives, cocaine U.S. have and and Human government at 2.8 used least million heroin once Serestimates, 1.8 million people have used heroin