A comprehensive searchable repository providing access to international evidence and reports about the Armed Forces community. Updated each month using robust methodology, the repository can be used confidently by all to identify and access relevant evidence. A user-friendly search tool is available to support your research needs and includes the ability to specify key words, themes, author, year of publication, country of origin, methods used, and whether items have been peer reviewed.
Abstract: Objective: Times of heightened societal stress exacerbate intimate partner violence (IPV), and emerging research suggests IPV increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much …
Abstract: Objective: Adolescent children of US service members (i.e., military-dependent youth) face unique stressors that increase risk for various forms of disinhibited eating, …
Abstract: Military widow/ers can experience spousal death suddenly and in traumatic circumstances. Evidence shows that this experience often has a long-term effect on surviving …
Abstract: Background: Military personnel and veterans are at heightened risk for exposure to traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as intimate …
Abstract: Introduction: Military fathers aspire to be active and engaged parents, but deployments may make this difficult to accomplish. Men turn to techniques of creating presence …
Abstract: Chronic pain and mental health issues occur at higher rates in Veterans than the general population. One widely recognized mental health issue faced by Veterans is …
Abstract: Today the role of defense communities has only grown more significant as installations have evolved from closed enclaves in past decades to integrated entities in a …
Abstract: To assess the perception of the guidance received during rehabilitation by caregivers of patients with brain injury to support the post discharge transition to the home …
Abstract: The voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of …
Abstract: BACKGROUND: With Russia's invasion of the Ukraine on February 2022, Ukrainian children and adolescents have been exposed to several stressful life events. In addition to …
Abstract: As a multinational group of clinicians and researchers focused on including family in veterans’ and military members’ care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), …
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Homework has been shown to improve outcomes in cognitive-behavioral therapy, though less is known about the importance of homework during trauma-focused …