25.2%
The percentage of women Veterans who "reported inappropriate/unwanted comments or behavior by male veterans on VA grounds," according to a pre-publication article posted online by the journal Women's Health Issues -- Prevalence of Stranger Harassment of Women Veterans at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and Impacts on Delayed and Missed Care.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. Between the President’s Day holiday on Monday and the inclement weather later, it’s been a bit of a hectic week around here.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Factors associated with completing evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD among veterans in a national healthcare system.
● Expressions of emotional distress in active duty military personnel with mild traumatic brain injury: A qualitative content analysis.
● Examining the impact of different types of military trauma on suicidality in women veterans.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. We're already halfway through February and we've still got lots of events this month.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Pre-deployment insomnia is associated with post-deployment post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation in US Army soldiers.
● Effect of Augmenting Standard Care for Military Personnel With Brief Caring Text Messages for Suicide Prevention: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Association Between Predeployment Optimism and Onset of Postdeployment Pain in US Army Soldiers.