45% and 52%
The percentages, respectively, of unmarried Navy men and unmarried Navy women who "reported that life as a sailor diminished the likelihood that they would tie the knot," according to a recent article in Navy Times -- You’ve lost that lovin' feeling: Marriage and family hampered by military life, survey results say.
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. It's August and the school year is right around the corner. We've got lots of training opportunities coming up.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Sensory dysfunction and traumatic brain injury severity among deployed post- 9/11 Veterans: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study.
● Mental health care utilization and stigma in the military: comparison of Asian Americans to other racial groups.
● Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Bias Feedback Interventions to Prevent Post-deployment PTSD: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Stigma is relative, socially and culturally determined, and dynamic. Consequently, stigma is a difficult concept to operationally define. This is important because definitions shape and directly impact efforts to research and reduce stigma. In 2014, the RAND National Defense Research Institute published an extensive assessment of stigma-reduction strategies within the DoD (Acosta et al., 2014).
17.2%, 36.3%, and 7.3%
The percentages, respectively, of 9,872 military spouses enrolled in the Millennium Cohort Family Study who reported cigarette smoking, risky drinking, and problem drinking, according to a recent study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors -- Smoking and drinking behaviors of military spouses: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Family Study.