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EAP Service Use in a Managed Behavioral Health Care Organization: From the Employee Perspective

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Pages 85-96
Published online: 17 May 2011

Contemporary Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services are typically provided in broad-brush programs delivered by large external vendors in a network model. Yet research has not kept pace with EAP evolution, including in terms of how EAP clients themselves view services. The authors surveyed a random sample of EAP service users from a national provider (361 respondents). About one third of respondents reported getting help for workplace issues. Most learned about the EAP through employer communications such as the company Web site. The large majority reported that the EAP helped them “a lot” or “some,” suggesting they valued this benefit.

Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse through the Brandeis/Harvard Research Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse Treatment (grant #P50 DA010233-09). The authors thank Galina Zolotusky for programming, Grant Ritter for statistical consultation, Kikumi Usui and Nancy Pun for administrative data file preparation, Amity Quinn for research assistance, Michele Hutcheon for manuscript preparation, and Vanessa Azzone for helpful comments on this manuscript.

 

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