Brief Summary: Using a sample of 269 Vietnam-era Veterans, this study examined whether marital quality at baseline (assessed by multiple indicators, such as companionship, sociability, and tension) was associated with […]
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Caregiver emotional wellbeing is related to nursing home admissions among veterans (2025)
Approximately 14 million US adults require long-term care; most of this care is provided in the community by family caregivers. High intensity care can decrease caregiver wellbeing; caregiver burden is […]
Risk factors for homelessness among post-9/11 era veterans (2025)
This study examined the associations between a broad range of individual characteristics and homelessness among 49,323 post-9/11 era Veterans. Questions concerning the roles of premilitary, military and post military factors […]
Measuring Our Communities: The State of Military and Veteran Families in the United States
PTSD service dogs foster resilience among veterans and military families (2021)
“Military deployment and reintegration challenges permeate the lives and relationships of Veterans, their spouses, and their families. Among these challenges, 23% of post-9/11 Veterans have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychiatric service dogs have been found to help clinically alleviate PTSD symptoms when used as a complementary intervention.”
Building community capacity to care for military and veteran families: The Star Behavioral Health Providers Program (2021)
“Service members, veterans, and their families frequently have difficulties finding trained behavioral health providers who have knowledge of military culture and issues specific to the military population. This paper documents the design, implementation, effectiveness, and proximal outcomes of the Star Behavioral Health Providers training program (SBHP).”
Female U.S. military veterans’ (non)disclosure of mental health issues with family and friends: Privacy rules and boundary management (2019)
“Grounded in communication privacy management (CPM) theory, this study explores the criteria female U.S. military veterans rely on when creating privacy rules regarding (non)disclosure of their mental health information with others as well as how female veterans manage privacy boundaries. Interviews with a diverse sample of 78 female veterans recently diagnosed with PTSD revealed examples of all five criteria for privacy rules proposed by CPM theory and illustrate how factors such as military culture, trauma, and risk/benefit assessments are interconnected.”
Student service members/veterans in higher education: A systematic review (2014)
This article systematically reviewed the data-based peer-reviewed research examining student service members and veterans in higher education.