The wars in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF) have engendered a growing population of US female veterans, with women now comprising 15% of active US duty military personnel.
Although there is considerable research on the effects of OEF/OIF deployment on Service members, few studies have focused on issues women face during deployment.
Background: The mental health of children is a primary public health concern; adolescents of military personnel may be at increased risk of experiencing poorer well-being overall and depressive symptoms specifically.
Survey data were utilized to examine the influence of military connectedness and parental deployment on adolescent mental health (i.e., feeling sad or hopeless, suicidal ideation, well-being, and depressive symptoms).
Objective: Since post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common after military deployment and affects both military service membes and their families, we sought to both improve PTSD-related knowledge of military family members and to foster actions to help service members with their symptoms.
An educational website about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was created for military family members in order to increase PTSD-related knowledge and promote actions to help Service members with their symptoms.
To examine associations between parental military service and school-based weapon carrying, school-based physical fighting and gang membership among youth.
Washington State 8th, 10th, and 12th graders were surveyed to examine the association between parental military status (civilian, military non-deployed, and military deployed within the previous six years) and school based physical violence, weapon carrying, and gang membership.
Children of military personnel face stress when a parent deploys. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine the effect of parental military deployment on the relative rate of outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health disorders in children aged 3 to 8 years.
Researchers aimed to determine the effect of parental military deployment on the relative rate of outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health disorders in children aged three to eight years.