A multi-disciplinary team of researchers is seeking participants in the first large scientific study of the impact of a service member's death on surviving family members.
The research is being conducted by Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) in Bethesda, Maryland. The multi-disciplinary research team is led by Stephen J. Cozza, M.D., associate director of CSTS and director of the Child and Family Program..
Those eligible to participate will have a related service member who died while on active duty status on or after Sept. 11, 2001. Family members are defined as:
- parents, including step-parents, adoptive parents and legal guardians;
- siblings and step-siblings;
- spouses and ex-spouses; and
- children and step-children.
The service member who died may have been serving in active, Guard or reserve units. The death may have occurred stateside or overseas. Circumstance of death must not necessarily be combat-related; the impact of a service member’s death by accident, homicide, illness or suicide will also be studied. To learn more, please contact The National Military Family Bereavement Study.