Innovative Surveillance and Risk Reduction Systems for Family Maltreatment, Suicidality, and Substance Problems in USAF
Abstract
This project aims to enhance the capacity of the Air Force (AF) to reduce death, injury, and degraded force readiness via reduction of the prevalence and impact of family maltreatment, suicidality, and alcohol/drug problems ("secretive problems"). Managing risk and increasing resilience in military human resources (i.e., "Force Health Protection") is a top priority for DoD and Armed Forces leadership. The objective of this study is to enhance the AF's current prevention delivery (known as the Integrated Delivery System: IDS) infrastructure through (a) the development and validation of a information system needed to direct prevention efforts more effectively and efficiently: (b) the adoption of a prevention-science-based approach: and (c) the evaluation of its effectiveness. When funded, the proposed project was broken into two phases. This first phase is a demonstration project on which to build a randomized trial. This project is meeting the objectives by: (a) pilot testing the development of an innovative surveillance system and validating its accuracy (at 4 AF bases) for family maltreatment, suicidality, and problematic alcohol and drug use, and (b) pilot testing the creation of an enhanced IDS by training community leaders in prevention-science-based intervention methodology and testing the impact on factors that are prerequisites for effective community prevention initiatives and on targeted outcomes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA470983
Entities
People
- Amy M. Slep
- Richard E Heyman
Organizations
- State University of New York