Comparing advice from military parents, partners, and veterans about how families can encourage service members to seek behavioral health care
- Wilson, S. R., Kamal, D., Winter, S. N., Hall, E. D., Gettings, P. E., Kirchubel, L. H., & Inderstrodt-Stephens, J. (2019). Comparing advice from military parents, partners, and veterans about how families can encourage service members to seek behavioral health care. Journal of Family Communication, 19(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2018.1530238
- 87 at-home partners used daily diaries for one week to capture communication channels and communication activities with their deployed service member (SM). For two communication channels (phone and video communication), analyses assessed how (1) communication activities related to partners’ feelings of connection and (2) daily fluctuations in communication activities related to daily feelings of connection. For both phone and video calls, service members’ provision of support and participation in decision making were associated with increased feelings of closeness by the at-home partner.
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