Objective: To determine the efficacy of the Mentors Offering Maternal Support (MOMS) program to reduce pregnancy-specific anxiety and depression and build self-esteem and resilience in military women.
Design: Randomized controlled trial with repeated measures.
Prenatal intervention programs may decrease civilian women's anxiety and depression levels during pregnancy; however, less is known about how prenatal interventions impact women affiliated with the military.
The purpose of this study was to investigate how an active duty member's increased time away from home (deployments, temporary duty assignments, and trainings) affects family stress as reported by the dependent spouse.
The requirements of military service (e.g. training, deployment) can negatively influence military families and children.
This study addresses the abuse experiences of immigrant women married or engaged to U.S. servicemen and the response of military social service and legal systems.
In-depth interviews were conducted with immigrant women who had experienced abuse by their intimate partners (who were also Service members). Emerging themes considered the intersection of two statuses – that of immigrant and of military spouse/partner.
Using a sample of 434 couples consisting of active duty Army husbands married to civilian wives, relationships between recent deployment, current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and a range of marital outcomes were investigated.
Survey data from Army husbands and civilian wives were utilized to examine whether a recent history of deployment and current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were related to several aspects of marital functioning (i.e., satisfaction, negative communication, positive bonding, parenti
This study examined problems pertaining to the health and well-being of Army spouses during deployment, comparing those whose experienced extensions of their partners' deployments with those whose partners returned home on time or early.
Survey data from Army spouses were used to evaluate the association between Army deployment extensions and spouses’ health and well-being (e.g., depression, anxiety), deployment-induced difficulties with daily life operations (e.g., house maintenance, childcare), and perceptions of the Army durin