This study employed the relational turbulence model to examine features of relational communication and dimensions of relational inferences during the postdeployment transition for military service members.
In this study, researchers examined associations between relational turbulence (i.e., relational uncertainty and partner interference), relational communication (i.e., openness and aggressiveness), and relational inferences (i.e., affiliation and dominance) during the post-deployment transition (
Objective. We investigated relations between deployment and new-onset depression among US service members recently deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Methods.
Data from Military Service members were used to investigate the association between deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, combat exposure, and new-onset depression.
There is a growing number of grandparents faced with the need to raise their grandchildren as a result of the military deployment of their own child. This is a descriptive study that examines the experiences of 23 grandmothers who are providing full time child care to their grandchildren.
This descriptive study examines how military deployments affect custodial grandparents who are appointed to care for grandchildren during this parental absence. Participants were recruited through pre-existing support groups in community agencies located near military installations.
Objective. Children are frequently perceived to be healthy, low-risk individuals with a majority of clinical services devoted to health maintenance and preventive clinical services. However, a subset of children have unique needs that require specialized care to achieve optimal health outcomes.
Children in military families experience health challenges just like children in other families.
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.