The association between alcohol use and substantiated incidents of nonmutual and mutual domestic violence between U.S. Army enlisted soldiers and their spouses was examined for the period 1998–2004. Maltreatment was always more severe in nonmutual incidents.
There is sometimes a distinction made between nonmutual domestic violence, in which one partner is the perpetrator and the other partner is the victim, and mutual domestic violence, in which both partners are (at times) perpetrator and victim.
The current study tested the effectiveness of a brief expressive writing intervention on the marital adjustment of 102 military couples recently reunited following a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
A sample of 102 couples recruited from Fort Hood, Texas, participated in a study examining the impact of expressive writing (writing thoughts and feelings about Soldiers' transition from deployment to being reunited with family at home) on marital satisfaction, rates of yelling, and physical
Cognitive appraisal and coping theory were used to examine parental stress, family stress, and personal stress among wives of deployed soldiers. A random sample of wives of U.S.
It is important to understand what factors contribute to Service Members' stress. In this study, researchers examined the length of deployment, number of deployments, and rank of the Soldier as predictors of family, personal, and parenting stress.
Overweight and obesity prevalence has increased over the past 30 years. Few studies have looked at the enrolled Military Health System (MHS) population (2,2 million per year).
This descriptive report, for 2009-2012, compares the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adults in the Military Health System (MHS) population to rates of the general U.S. population.
For family members of dying patients who have grown accustomed to providing daily body care, the transition from home to hospital is stressful. The authors used the experiences surrounding death for 78 U.S. veterans who died in a Veterans Affairs hospital.
Interviews were conducted with the next-of-kin of 78 Veterans who died in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, to discuss their experiences transitioning from home care to hospital care.