Understanding features of community strength both on and off the military installation will help identify and address the needs of military families. This study introduced a measure to identify adequacy of community resources for military families.
Military families frequently display remarkable resilience in the face of significant challenges, and yet deployment and parental separation are significant stressors for parents, particularly those with infants and young children.
Deployment can be a time of increased stress for Service members' families.
Military lifestyle can be challenging for military spouses. The study explored factors that were related to the psychological well-being of military spouses, and also examined how a sense of community may play a role in military spouses’ well-being.
An in-depth analysis of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veteran’s experiences with suicidal ideation was conducted.
We sought to understand Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans’ experiences with suicidal ideation. Semi-structured interviews with 34 OEF/OIF veterans addressed circumstances leading up to disclosure of suicidal ideation during brief clinical assessments.
An exploration of informal and formal supports that National Guard Service members use was conducted.
Much of the research on military families has focused on active duty service members. Little is known about informal and formal supports that National Guard service members use.
Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) recommends screening female patients for intimate partner violence (IPV), yet few studies inform IPV screening efforts among this population.
Little is known about the experiences of military nurses’ reintegration following return from combat deployments. In this study, thirty-five U.S. military nurses shared their lived experiences returning from deployment.
The purpose of the current study was to describe reintegration experiences of U.S. military nurses returning from deployments in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. A qualitative study using a phenomenological method was conducted. The population comprised nurses who served in the U.S.
Although military service, and particularly absence due to deployment, has been linked to risk for depression and anxiety among some spouses and children of active duty service members, there is limited research to explain the heterogeneity in family members’ reactions to military service stresso
Individuals who experience the deployment of a spouse often encounter certain difficulties and develop coping strategies to deal with those difficulties.
Understanding risk factors related to Service members' employment-related outcomes is an important area of research, especially following the return of a deployment back into civilian life.
Objective: Employment is a vital part of the post-deployment return to civilian life.
The risk for child maltreatment may be higher among families who experience high levels of stress. To better understand this risk in U.S. Air Force (USAF) families, the degree to which new or expectant mothers' level of needs predicted future child maltreatment were explored.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) New Parent Support Program (NPSP) is a voluntary family maltreatment prevention program for expectant parents and parents of young children. NPSP mothers are classified as “low needs” (LN) or “high needs” (HN) based on their Family
This study examined gender differences in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and symptom factors in the total U.S. active duty force.
Child maltreatment is a serious concern for families, and it is important to understand factors that may influence maltreatment rates. Rates of child maltreatment by a civilian parent in a military family were compared before, during, and after deployment.
Veterans completed questionnaires to examine gender differences relationships among warfare exposure (combat deployment and exposure to casualties), health status, and functional impairment.
It is important to understand factors that may contribute to the perpetration of intimate partner violence. In order to analyze the connection between relationship satisfaction, number of deployments, and intimate partner violence, researchers surveyed 80 U.S. Sailors.
Newly recruited Soldiers participated in a study examining the associations between mental disorders and suicidal behavior (ideation, plans, and attempts). Having a mental disorder was associated with increased odds of suicidal behavior.
"Background: Preliminary data indicate the suicide rate in the United States military decreased in 2013, but the National Guard saw a continued increase.
This study uses a positive youth development (PYD) approach to explore whether differences in youths' conceptions of spirituality were linked to patterns of difference regarding 6 domains of PYD.
The majority of adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are parents. Parents with PTSD report lower levels of parenting satisfaction, poorer parent_ child relationships, and elevated incidence of child distress and behavioral problems in comparison with parents without PTSD.
This study examined the relations among three different types of naturally occurring social support (from romantic partners, friends and neighbors, and unit leaders) and three indices of Service member well-being (self reports of depressive symptoms, satisfaction with military life, and perceptio
During frequent and lengthy deployments, infidelity may be a concern for Service members and their significant others. This study examined how combat-exposed Service members’ experiences of infidelity during deployment were associated with post-deployment mental health.
National Guard youth at a summer camp participated in an individual interview regarding their behavior during parental deployment. Participants described a range of responses, including assuming additional household tasks to maintaining typical routines.
Previous research indicates that suicidal ideation is higher among military-connected youth than non military-connected youth. This study extends prior work by examining suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts in military-connected and non military-connected adolescents.
Objective: Limited data suggest that the children of U.S. service members may be at increased risk for disordered-eating. To date, no study has directly compared adolescent military-dependents to their civilian peers along measures of eating pathology and associated correlates.