By The Numbers: 5 June 2023
70%
The percentage of "of all doctors in the U.S. trained at VA facilities", according to a recent article in MilitaryTimes -- How VA develops highly skilled compassionate health professionals.
Deployment Psychology Blog
Research Update: 1 June 2023
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
● Understanding a Time of High Risk for Suicide: Adversities Associated with Separation from Military Service among National Guard and Reserve Service Members.
Staff Perspective: Treating Our Adolescents in Uniform
BLUF: If you work with our United States Service members, you may be treating more adolescents than you realize. Did you know that contemporary theories of human development consider adolescence to extend to about age 25? If we think of adolescence as extending to about age 25, adolescents comprise a large proportion of U.S. Active Duty and Selected Reserve service members.
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Research Update: 25 May 2023
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
- Informing measurement of gender differences in suicide risk and resilience: A national study of United States military veterans
- Military experiences, connection to military identity, and time since military discharge as predictors of United States veteran suicide risk
- Estimated Rates of Incident and Persistent Chronic Pain Among US Adults, 2019-2020
- Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Group to Expand Mobile Application Knowledge and Use in a Veteran Residential Treatment Program
By The Numbers: 22 May 2023
8.5%
The percentage of the total number of veterans served by the Veterans Health Administration who are involved in substance abuse, according to a recent article in MilitaryTimes -- Veterans can wait weeks to get VA help for drug, alcohol abuse.
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