The impact of having a child with special healthcare needs on length of military service
Perkins, E. M., Sorensen, I., Susi, A., & Hisle-Gorman, E. (2021). The impact of having a child with special healthcare needs on length of
military service. Military Medicine, usab495. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usab495
Abstract Created by REACH
This study explored whether having a child with special health care needs (i.e.,
complex, noncomplex, or no chronic disease) was related to length of service for military parents. Data were
analyzed from health care records of 915,584 military families with a child younger than 10 years old. Health
care records were used to gather demographic information about the child and family (i.e., child age and
sex, military parent sex, marital status, rank) and the military parent’s length of service. Accounting for
demographic factors, parents of children with chronic disease had longer military service than parents of
children without chronic disease.
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