Pregnant women eligible for care on military bases completed questionnaires about deployment, community support, and conflict related to acceptance of pregnancy at three time points during pregnancy.
Interviews with 25 military wives to elicit their lived experience of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom deployment found two main themes: the recipe for being a good military wife and managing split loyalties.
Interview data of Army wives were utilized in an effort to capture the nature of their experiences and to obtain a deeper understanding of the military, deployment, and separation from their unique viewpoint.
Using a large-scale survey, we examined the relationship between number of deployments experienced by female spouses of active duty military members and these spouses’ perceived stress.
Survey data were utilized to examine the relationship between the number of times a Service members was deployed and their wives’ self-reported stress levels.