Background: Young people in military-connected families may be exposed to deleterious stressors, related to family member deployment, that have been associated with externalizing behaviors such as substance use.
Young people in military-connected families may be exposed to negative stressors, related to family member deployment, and as such be more likely to engage in substance use.
Using a cross-sectional design, this study surveyed 144 students on campus who are service members and veterans to determine whether posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms are significantly correlated with demographic factors (e.g., age, race and marital status), risk factors (e.g., military branch
A survey of 900 university student Service members and Veterans was administered to determine whether posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms are significantly correlated with demographic factors (e.g., age, race, marital status), risk factors (e.g., military branch, combat exposure), and resources (
Since September 11, 2001, over 2 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military-connected children (MCC) having experienced a parental deployment.
Schools can be an effective setting to deliver interventions to promote well-being among children. One such intervention for military-connected children, Staying Strong with Schools, was tested for its effectiveness in a civilian school.
We conducted semi-structured focus groups with men in the United States Air Force (N = 39) to examine fathers' access to parenting information during the transition to parenthood, and to determine methods for engaging fathers in intervention.
Fathers' access to parenting information during the transition to parenthood and how best to engage fathers in parenting intervention programs were explored.
We characterized socioeconomic disparities in short sleep duration, which is linked to multiple adverse health outcomes, in a population-based sample of veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had interacted with the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Quality and duration of sleep is an important component of one's health for the general population and especially so for Veterans.