Children of Service members often experience added stress and disruption during deployment, which can be especially difficult for youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of spousal deployment during the antenatal period on maternal and neonatal outcomes and to estimate whether group prenatal care may be beneficial in reducing adverse outcomes when spouses are deployed.
Relationships between spousal deployment, maternal outcomes, and neonatal outcomes were examined via chart review and surveys of 397 pregnant women.
Research indicates that concerns about disruption of family relationships during military service may be associated with greater posttraumatic stress symptomatology.
Service members who are parents may have additional concerns during deployment about their family’s well-being than non-parent Service members.
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.
Objective: To determine if a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was associated with primary care provider-diagnosed physical disease in the first 5 years post deployment.
The Veterans Hospital's Association (VHA) administrative records of 4,416 OIF/OEF Veterans using the upstate New York Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system were analyzed to determine if a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was associated with primary care provider-diagnosed
Objective: High rates of mental health concerns have been documented in US Army soldiers deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The goal of this study was to compare the postdeployment mental health screening results of US Army soldiers with 1 or 2 deployments to Iraq.