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: Self-stigma can generate significant public health costs because of its implications concerning underutilization of treatment. Veterans are particularly vulnerable to …
Abstract: Introduction: Military veterans are at heightened risk for developing mental and behavioral health problems. Morally injurious combat experiences have recently gained …
Abstract: Background: Most military families experience mandatory relocation, or posting, several times during the military career. For Canadian military families who must access …
The word injury derives from the Latin injuria meaning a wrong. Applied to both physical and psychological wounds, it is now used as a label for the impact that a moral and ethical …
Abstract: Background: The ‘healthy worker effect’ predicts that longer employment is positively associated with reduced mortality, but few studies have examined mortality in …
Abstract: Poor sleep and pain are common in veterans with serious mental illness (SMI), yet it is unclear how these may impact dimensions of quality of life. As such, this study …
Abstract: Over the past decade, it has become increasingly recognized that military veterans are at higher risk than the general population for neuropsychiatric conditions such as …
Abstract: This paper reviews changes in the ethical challenges that have arisen in military medicine over the past four decades. This includes the degree, if any, to which …
Abstract: Objectives: To determine the (a) health status and caregiving appraisal and (b) influence of perceived burden on health and appraisal in a sample of caregivers helping …
Abstract: Background: Little is known about the social and emotional well-being of children whose fathers have been deployed to the conflicts in Iraq/Afghanistan or who have …
Abstract: Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump claimed that American veterans were treated worse than refugees and undocumented immigrants. That belief—that the …
Abstract: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene is associated with increased risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and plays a role in neuroplasticity, cognition …