Military REACH Review | September 2024 Newsletter
The Military REACH Review provides monthly updates from the team and connects readers with the latest products on www.MilitaryREACH.org.
Researchers engaged in structured interviews with military-connected women (mostly active-duty Service members) to explore how military culture and lifestyle affected their pregnancy and child's birth.
True or False: Participants tended to disclose their pregnancies earlier than they wanted. To maintain their privacy, some even delayed their pregnancy tests and/or maternity care.
- Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes (Totenhagen et al., 2024)
- Examining veterans’ preferences for how to deliver couples-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: Home-based telehealth or in-person? (Wells et al., 2024)
- A mixed-methods study to evaluate family planning desires and barriers to building families among gay, bisexual, and lesbian cisgender military service members (Boedeker et al., 2024)
- Paternal PTSD or depression, adolescent mental health, and family functioning: A study of UK military families (Wickersham et al., 2024)
- Unveiling the influence of competitive sports on the sense of self and identity of disabled veterans: A systematic review and mixed-methods synthesis (Hendrick et al., 2024)
- Narrating the sociocultural experience and management of stigma related to military caregiving (Roscoe, 2024)
- Factors that influence health care–seeking behavior and health information disclosure among U.S. Air Force pilots (Goodman et al., 2024)
- Mental health treatment rates during pregnancy and post partum in US military service members (Heissel & Healy, 2024)
- Cost removed! Do different factors influence motivation for vasectomy reversal when cost is not an issue? (Maloney et al., 2024)
- Qualitative analysis of the lived experience of reproductive and pediatric health care in the Military Health Care System (Musilli et al., 2024)
- A randomized controlled trial of surf and hike therapy for U.S. active duty service members with major depressive disorder (Walter et al., 2023)
- The association between food insecurity and intimate partner violence among U.S. Army soldiers (Beymer & Rabbitt, 2024)
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Take time to learn about resources and tools available to those affected by domestic and intimate partner violence.
If you are experiencing domestic violence and are ready to talk with someone, contact an advocate from the Family Advocacy Program.
If you are in immediate danger, dial #911 or call your local Military Police station.
- Assessing intimate partner violence: A review of 13 reliable and valid tools (Vandenberg et al., 2023)
- Safety planning for intimate partner violence: Practical and contextual considerations for service providers (Frye-Cox et al., 2022)
- Longitudinal predictors of children's self-blame appraisals among military families reported for family violence (Rancher et al., 2024)
- Intimate partner violence perpetration among military spouses (Park et al., 2021)
Emily Hanson (left) & Allison Tidwell (right)
This month, several Military REACH team members presented posters at the 2024 Outreach & Engaged Scholarship Symposium. Emily Hanson and Allison Tidwell (Human Development and Family Science PhD students) received awards in Science Communication and Outreach Efforts for their poster presentations.
Lessons Learned from an International Collaboration on Veteran Family Research
Allison Tidwell and Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer
Better together: Capitalizing on the collective agency of a university-nonprofit partnership to achieve actionable solutions for military families
Presenter: Emily Hanson and Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer
Advancing Family Resilience through Community-Based Mental Health Center Policies: Facilitating Conversations and Breaking Boundaries
Presenter: Sheila Sjolseth and Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer