Air Force Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Services: Contribution to Airman and Family Resilience and Readiness - Appendixes

Abstract

Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs and services are thought to be an integral part of building resilient and ready Airmen and families. However, the Air Force currently lacks an evidence-informed evaluation framework for MWR programs, especially one that identifies short-term and intermediate outcomes that contribute to Airman and family resilience and readiness. To understand the ways that MWR programs can contribute to resilience and readiness, the Air Force asked RAND to develop an evidence-informed framework that links program activities to such outcomes and provides guidance on collecting and managing the data needed to measure those outcomes. To accomplish this, we developed an evidence-informed model of resilience and readiness building blocks that is, precursors to overall resilience and readiness identified through a review of existing literature. We then used this model as the basis for a comparison between the building blocks and the short-term and intermediate outcomes targeted by programs and services within the Air Force MWR portfolio. Together these two efforts allow the Air Force to examine whether and how the MWR portfolio could be used to foster resilience and readiness across the total force. This appendix contains a list of the citations used to develop the building blocks model described in Chapter Two. The lists are organized in five tables organized by system levelindividual, family, peer/squadron, community, and background. Each table includes the main search term for which the source was located (i.e., resilience or readiness), documentation about the source (e.g., author, title, journal title, etc.), and the type of evidence found (e.g., cross-sectional, pre-/post-, longitudinal, quasi-experimental, or experimental).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1086454

Entities

People

  • Christopher M. Busque
  • Dana Schultz
  • Felix Knutson
  • Laura L. Miller
  • Leslie A. Payne
  • Margaret Tankard
  • Sarah O. Meadows
  • Stephani L. Wrabel
  • Stephanie B. Holliday
  • Wing Y. Chan

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Health Services
  • Homosexuality
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Development
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Military Research
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies

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  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.
  • Systems Analysis and Design