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The role of visualization, previous help-seeking, and intentions to seek help from a PCP for depression:An outcome evaluation [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite primary care providers’ (PCPs) ability to effectively treat depression, encouraging individuals to seek and return to treatment is challenging. Although encouraging, the previous analyses failed to explore outcomes directly related to PCP HSI. Outcome Measures: PCP HSI from General HS Questionnaire.

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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. The geographic accessibility of PCPs for Medicaid patients at the time of enrollment was constructed at the census tract level using the 2-Stage Floating Catchment method. Black individuals were 3.0