Objectives: Increasing evidence suggests that deficits in mindfulness (awareness, attentiveness, andacceptance of the present moment) play a role in a range of disorders involving behavioraldysregulation.
Researchers examined whether rates of externalizing behavior (e.g., alcohol consumption, aggressive behavior) four and nine months after deployment were related to various internalizing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or elements of the social environmen
Objectives: The study examined whether elevated rates of externalizing behaviors following deployment could be explained by internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms), and health of the social environment (unit leadership, organizational support, and stigma/barriers to care).
Eighty-six spouses of military Service members who had been deployed participated in this study that explored the connections between mental health, social support, and physical health. Findings revealed that anxiety symptoms were related to lower social support and poorer physical health.
The goal of this study was to examine the relationships between heightened anxiety, social support, and physical health in a sample of spouses of returning Iraq and Afghanistan service members.
Examined a cognitive-behavioral pathway by which depressive symptoms in mothers and fathers increase risk for later child externalizing problem behavior via parents’ appraisals of child behavior and physical discipline.
Health care records of 55,000 non-pregnant spouses and 137,000 children of deployed Active Duty U.S. Army personnel were compared to records of spouses and children of non-deployed Soldiers to study changes in dependent health care utilization during deployment.
Background: U.S. Armed Forces members and spouses report increased stress associated with combat deployment. It is unknown, however, whether these deployment stressors lead to increased dependent medication use and health care utilization.
New military mothers may encounter difficulties in parenting and infant care that civilian mothers do not. Active Duty mothers and military wives or partners were surveyed about factors that impact achievement of breastfeeding goals.
Evidence continues to accumulate showing the benefits of breastfeeding to infants, mothers, and society as a whole. However, breastfeeding success rates nationwide have consistently fallen short of recommendations set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The academic research in this area is relatively new, and we draw on recent social science studies to describe a vision for maximizing the effectiveness of financial education by coupling it with steps that turn financial knowledge into effective actions.
Twenty Reserve component (Army and Marines) and Army National Guard male veterans of Operational Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom discuss their deployment and postdeployment family reintegration experiences.
The authors of this study provided descriptive data for U.S. Army suicides that occurred from 2005 to 2007 in 17 U.S. states using two large scale surveillance systems: National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and the Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER).
Suicides are increasing among active duty US Army soldiers. To help focus prevention strategies, we characterized 56 US Army suicides that occurred from 2005 to 2007 in 17 US states using two large-scale surveillance systems.
Alcohol use in the military is a significant problem.
Researchers examined the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms in military spouses during deployment and how that relationship varied based on levels of positivity.
Using the Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, the relationships among stress, positivity, and depressive symptoms were examined in a sample of military spouses during deployment (N = 367). Over one-third of the spouses reported moderately severe levels of depressive symptoms.
Objective: This study examined 2003-2009 trends in three marital functioning indicators: marital quality, infidelity, and separation/divorce intent, and in marital issolution rates among U.S. soldiers.
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Data was collected from 670 Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans evaluated at a post-deployment clinic in New Jersey to assess the physical health functioning at several time points post-deployment.
In the United States, nationally representative civilian studies have shown that BMI is associated with select sociodemographic characteristics. Active‐duty military personnel are not included in these surveys and the persistence of these associations in military personnel is unknown.
There are few helpful resources and research studies on how military families with preschool-age children may be affected by deployment. Focus groups with military families that had at least one preschool-age child examined the emotions and reactions of family members to deployment.
This manuscript describes a qualitative study using focus group methods to gain insight into how combat-related parental deployments affect preschool-age children.
Military couples may experience significant marital stressors that civilian couples do not face (e.g., deployment, mental health concerns). Rates of marriage and divorce among Active Duty, male U.S. Service members and a matched civilian sample were compared from 1998-2005.
Since military operations began in Afghanistan and Iraq, lengthy deployments have led to concerns about the vulnerability of military marriages. Yet evaluating military marriages requires some benchmark against which marital outcomes in the military may be compared.
Military families experience increased stress when facing issues of deployment, separation, and reunification. The increased stress impacts the parent-child relationship as well as child behavioral and emotional well-being.
It is important for military spouses to use effective coping strategies during deployment to avoid mental and physical health problems. Wives of Active Duty Soldiers completed surveys regarding coping strategies used during deployment and the perceived efficacy of those strategies.
Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to describe the coping behaviors used by Army wives during deployment separation, the perceived effectiveness of the coping behaviors used, and the correlation between the two variables.
Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) of Service members, as well as their partners' personal history of trauma or secondary trauma symptoms, may combine to decrease couples' functioning.