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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"post deployment"”.
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Predictors of post-deployment mental healthcare utilization among active duty Marines
Service members returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan consistently report high rates of behavioral health problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and alcohol misuse. However, despite signs of treatment need, research suggests that mental health services are …
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The Post Deployment Lived Experience of U.S. Military Troops after Combat-Related Blast Exposure
… injury in U.S. military troops returning from deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq. BINT is leading to a silent epidemic of symptomatic troops who face barriers to accessing healthcare and suffer debilitating symptoms in silence. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to …
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The Effects of Combat Exposure on Post-Deployment Coping Deficits in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans
… exposed to combat are reporting symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as other significant detrimental impacts on their ability to cope with the stressful situations they experienced in the combat arena. The purpose of the current study is to ascertain the presence of …
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The Effect Of Masculinity On Post-Deployment Veterans' Help-Seeking Behaviors And Mental Health Outcomes
… together were predictive of higher levels of post-traumatic stress. It also suggested that restrictive emotionality and avoidance of emotional processing may serve as protective factors against the latter. Restrictive emotionality, adherence to normative male alexithymia, and dominant …
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Deployment Stressors, Use of Military and Civilian Resources, and Post-Deployment Adjustment for Wives of Active Duty Service Members
… of literature on spouses' adjustment during the deployment cycle, the role of accessing military and civilian resources in reducing distress has not been examined. Guided by Family Stress Theory and the ABC-X model, it was hypothesized that accessing military or civilian resources would weaken …
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Hardware Architectures for Low-power In-Situ Monitoring of Wireless Embedded Systems
… research prototypes to large-scale commercial deployments, providing reliable and dependable system operation becomes absolutely crucial to ensure successful adoption. However, the untethered nature of wireless embedded systems severely limits the ability to access, debug, and control device …
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Failure to Engage: Exploring Treatment Initiation Delays for Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among the Canadian Armed Forces
… (CAF), there are significant concerns regarding post-deployment mental health, including failure to initiate treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a timely manner. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the factors contributing to delays in treatment initiation …
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Individual- and Unit-Level Coping Among Combat Veterans Subject to Army Force Stabilization System Personnel Policy
… the moderation effects of unit stabilization on post-deployment coping among Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans. Based on survey data collected on 3,832 U.S. Army soldiers belonging to 55 companies, unit-level variables were constructed and subsequent analysis was performed on only those unit …
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The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire: A Preliminary Validation
… regarding the preliminary validation of The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire (PCCAQ). This measure was designed to assess post-combat and post-deployment adjustment for male veterans and their female partners. The measure was created using existing literature on veterans, …
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The Influence of Stressors and Strain on Alcohol Use in Canadian Armed Forces Members
… in the military has been widespread, especially post-deployment, which causes concern for the leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in the post-Afghanistan deployment era. In order to shed light onto this important issue, two studies assessed the impact of multiple stressors and strain on …
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Explaining associations between relational turbulence, communal coping, stressors, and relational satisfaction during military reunions: At-home partners' perspectives
… the reintegration transition following a recent deployment. The relational turbulence model (Solomon & Knobloch, 2004) and the theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC; Afifi, Hutchinson, & Krouse, 2006) were used to frame this study. These frameworks had not been previously joined in this …
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma-Related Guilt: The Perspective of a Counselling Psychologist within the Military
… can often lead to psychological illness such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However the stigma of suffering a mental illness prevents many within the military from seeking help. Currently operating within the Royal Marines is Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) a peer-support system embedded …
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Boundary Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Military Family Reintegration
… dependents have been directly affected by the deployment experiences of more than two million service members. This study examined the applicability of the Contextual Model of Family Stress (Boss, 2002) to a reintegrating military family sample (N = 228) by assessing the effects of external, …
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Reintegration into Civilian Life among Returning Veterans: The Roles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Stressor Exposure
This study examined the roles of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cumulative exposure to pre-deployment physical and/or sexual trauma and combat trauma in predicting reintegration difficulties faced by a sample of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans. …
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User-centric cloud application management
… future. That means they only consider the pre-deployment phase of the applications’ lifetime and ignore the post-deployment phase. It has been reported by researchers that cloud applications show performance variability in the post-deployment phase, which may result in QoE degradation. To …
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Mothers with a Dual Identity: Examining Treatment Outcomes and Risk Pathways for Deployed Mothers in the ADAPT and ADAPT4U Studies
… has been growing interest in understanding the post-deployment outcomes of deployed mothers, a growing subgroup within the military population. Despite growing research on military families in the last two decades, limited research has been conducted on mothers who deploy. Prior qualitative …
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Reconfigurable neural probes for chronic electrical recording
… the formation of an additional glial sheath post-deployment and thus enable chronic recording. Four successive generations of devices were fabricated, characterized in benchtop tests, and subsequently tested in the rat model and in the optogenetic Thyl-ChR2-YFP mouse model. The electrical and …
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Deployment and on-orbit shape modifications for a large space telescope using magnetostriction
… material coating and a magnetic write head, post deployment corrections will be applied to the surface figure. The feasibility study of the concept has been done in the context of a NIAC Phase I study which is the result of a collaboration between Northwestern University and the University of …
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Perceived Deployment Stressors And Well-Being Among Veterans Of Iraq And Afghanistan
… and present new challenges for service members post deployment. Currently, service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing a number of stressors that may have implications during their post deployment adjustment (Kline et al., 2010; La Bash et al., 2009; McNulty, 2005). Few …
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