Preliminary validation of the Barriers to Employment and Coping Efficacy Scales for Veterans with a mental health condition (BECES-V) - assessing barriers and self-efficacy to returning to work.

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q1 REHABILITATION

Disability and Rehabilitation Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI:10.1080/09638288.2025.2492310

Dominic Prévost, Marc Corbière, Jean-Philippe Lachance, Tania Lecomte, May Wong, Paul H Lysaker

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Abstract

Purpose: Released Veterans with mental health conditions are three times more likely than civilians to experience limitations in work reintegration. Various tools have been developed to assess barriers impacting the return-to-work (RTW) process for Veterans transitioning to civilian life. The Barriers to Employment and Coping Efficacy Scales for Veterans (BECES-V) was designed to assess perceived barriers and self-efficacy among Veterans as they reintegrate the workplace following a prolonged absence.

Methods: This study offers a preliminary validation of the BECES-V tool, specifically investigating: the dimensions of RTW obstacles while considering the literature and employing concept mapping procedure, the salient RTW obstacles experienced by Veterans with mental health conditions transitioning from military to civilian workplaces in Canada and the USA, and the strongest dimensions of RTW obstacles and self-efficacy, using logistic regression analyses. The study involved 92 Veterans who completed the BECES-V.

Results: Health-related limitations and adaptability difficulties were salient in both countries; self-efficacy to overcome work-life balance difficulties, as well as mental health and military stigmatization, emerged as the strongest predictors of RTW. Utilizing BECES-V may help identify Veterans at increased risk for prolonged RTW, allowing rehabilitation professionals to address individualized obstacles and self-efficacy for successful RTW.

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《退伍军人心理健康状况就业障碍与应对效能量表》（BECES-V）的初步验证——评估重返工作的障碍与自我效能。

目的：有心理健康问题的退伍军人在重新融入工作中遇到限制的可能性是平民的三倍。已经开发了各种工具来评估影响退伍军人向平民生活过渡的重返工作（RTW）过程的障碍。《退伍军人就业障碍与应对效能量表》（BECES-V）旨在评估退伍军人在长期离职后重返工作场所时的感知障碍和自我效能。方法：本研究对BECES-V工具进行了初步验证，结合文献资料，采用概念映射法，对加拿大和美国退伍军人转职过程中最显著的转职障碍进行了调查，并对转职障碍与自我效能感的最强维度进行了logistic回归分析。这项研究涉及92名完成BECES-V测试的退伍军人。结果：两国健康相关限制和适应困难突出；克服工作与生活平衡困难的自我效能感，以及心理健康和军事耻辱，是RTW的最强预测因素。利用BECES-V可以帮助识别长期RTW风险增加的退伍军人，允许康复专业人员解决个性化障碍和成功RTW的自我效能。

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Disability and Rehabilitation 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

5.00

自引率

9.10%

发文量

415

审稿时长

3-6 weeks

期刊介绍： Disability and Rehabilitation along with Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology are international multidisciplinary journals which seek to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability and to promote rehabilitation science, practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process.