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Number of service members who died by suicide in the 2021 calendar year. The number includes 328 active duty service members, 74 reservists, and 117 members of the National Guard. These number and the graphic below (click on it for a larger version) come from the "Department of Defense Annual Report on Suicide in the Military: Calendar Year 2021
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Real-World Evaluation of a Large-Scale Blended Care-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression.
● Service and demographic factors, health, trauma exposure, and participation are associated with adjustment for former Australian Defense Force members.
● Resilience in Army STARRS: Evaluating psychometrics of a multi-dimensional resilience measure.
Recently we hosted a webinar titled “CDP Presents: Debunking Common Misperceptions about Sleep Interventions” that addressed how as behavioral health professionals we can critically evaluate the regular barrage of claims we hear about sleep “tips” and products. I say critically not necessarily in a pejorative sense – that is, as a disapproval although that may end up being the case – but rather in the sense of approaching claims with a consistent evaluative framework. This kind of approach allows us to compare claims against scientific knowledge and evidence.
"The weighted lifetime prevalence of ED among veterans," according to an article published earlier this year in the journal Military Medicine -- Erectile Dysfunction in a U.S. National Sample of Male Military Veterans.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Association Between Folic Acid Prescription Fills and Suicide Attempts and Intentional Self-harm Among Privately Insured US Adults.
● Baseline executive functioning moderates treatment-related changes in quality of life in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid traumatic brain injury.
● The role of time since trauma on treatment outcomes of veterans in two intensive posttraumatic stress disorder treatment programs.