Drawing on Goldsmith’s (2004) normative theory, this article maps dilemmas family members experience when talking with returning service members (SMs) about seeking mental health care.
Potential dilemmas family members may experience when talking with returning Service members about their mental health were addressed.
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in war time deployments for military service members. How have young children been affected by single and multiple Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) deployments?
This study investigated how young children have been affected by single and multiple OIF/OEF deployments. Families were surveyed at two separate times assessing child behavior problems, along with individual and family characteristics.
This manuscript describes a qualitative study using focus group methods to gain insight into how combat-related parental deployments affect preschool-age children.
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.
Objective: To describe the effect of wartime military deployments on the behavior of young children in military families. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Childcare centers on a large Marine base.
Deployment can be a stressful time for children, particularly young children who may not understand what is happening. For this study, parents and childcare providers of children ages 18 months to five years old were surveyed regarding their child’s behavior during a parental 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.
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.