A Pilot Intervention to Increase Women's Coping Skills in Family Reintegration after Deployment in Combat Areas

Abstract

The goal of this research is to create an intervention for the positive reintegration of women in the National Guard and Reserves into their civilian and family lives, which in turn will promote beneficial mental health outcomes for military families and our society. This mixed methods study will 1) Document specific challenges and facilitators involved in family reintegration for women and 2) Develop and pilot test a telephone-delivered coping/support intervention? To address aim 1, 42 qualitative interviews have been completed and initial analysis conducted which identified 8 discrete areas of stress. Pending is the distribution of a cross-sectional survey to address this aim a specific challenge is the identification of an agreeable population.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586810

Entities

People

  • Patricia J. Kelly

Organizations

  • Kansas City University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Applied Psychology
  • Biomedical Research
  • Combat Areas
  • Data Analysis
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Electronic Mail
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Intervention
  • Mental Health
  • National Guard
  • Psychological Adaptation
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

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