63%
The percentage of soldiers who "had at least one pain diagnosis" during FY 2012, according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine, Prevalence of Pain Diagnoses and Burden of Pain Among Active Duty Soldiers, FY2012. 59% had a "primary pain diagnosis."
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 officially spring, even if it didn't feel much like it this week at CDP headquarters!
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Training in Evidence-Based Psychological Practice at the Master's Level.
● Postconcussive symptoms (PCS) following combat-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Influence of TBI, PTSD, and depression on symptoms measured by the Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory (NSI).
● The Relationship between Posttraumatic and Depressive Symptoms during Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy with a Cognitive Enhancer.
I recently received some feedback on training materials I put together, about how PTSD develops after a combat trauma. I had mentioned that classical conditioning explains how stimuli that occur in close proximity can become associated, resulting in conditioned responses. Of course, I mentioned Pavlov, because, dogs! Right? I might also have mentioned that our family dog salivates and does a little happy dance right on cue every morning when I grind the coffee, just before I walk over and scoop her food into the dish.
2.77 Million
The number of Service members who have served on 5.4 million deployments, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Examination of Recent Deployment Experience Across the Services and Components.