43.3%
The percentage of "returned Army National Guard soldiers (N = 4,567 in 50 company-sized units)" who reported being unable to sleep, according to a recent article n the journal Military Psychology -- Relationships of deployment and combat experiences to postdeployment negative health conditions among Army National Guard soldiers.
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 just about done with April, but the next few months have plenty to talk about!
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (April 2019)
● Subtypes of Mental Health Stigma and Barriers to Care Among National Guard Personnel: Results of a Latent Class Analysis.
● Provider perspectives on choosing prolonged exposure of cognitive processing therapy for PTSD: A national investigation of VA residential treatment providers.
● Effectiveness and Acceptability of Cognitive Behavior Therapy Delivery Formats in Adults With Depression: A Network Meta-analysis.
Renowned sleep researcher, Dr. Anne Germain from the University of Pittsburg, reviewed her and others’ research at the 14th Annual Amygdala, Stress, and PTSD Conference on April 16th in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Germain’s talk, “Wake up to Sleep! A Translational Perspective of the Role of Sleep in Readiness and Resilience" was presented to over 300 clinicians, researchers and graduate students.
20.8%
The percentage of adults in the U.S. who had chronic pain in 2016, according to an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2016.