Family as a Total Package: Restoring and Enhancing Psychological Health for Citizen Soldiers and Families (FAMPAC)
Abstract
The overall objectives were to: (I) demonstrate the effectiveness of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP); and (II) examine the role and potential of the YRRP as a post-deployment, community-building platform to restore and to enhance the psychological health of service members and their family members. The evidence indicates that a large-scale, brief, secondary prevention program, such as the YRRP, is effective in the short-term in improving the sense of self-efficacy for managing several domains of post-deployment reintegration needs. Data justified repeated YRRP events and the costs for inclusion of family members. The evidence also indicated that a largescale, brief, secondary prevention program, such as the YRRP, is effective in the short-term in improving the self-efficacy for managing several domains of post-deployment reintegration needs. In this state-wide National Guard sample, male and female NG members reported experiencing similar levels of combat experiences, except military sexual trauma which is significantly higher among female NG members. Hazardous alcohol use is found to reduce behavioral health help seeking in proportion to the severity of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms only among combat experienced NG members, providing support for considerable self-medication in this sample. Family members??? reported concerns for deployments were considerably different from those of NG members in that different concerns appear to have affected post-deployment reintegration and psychopathology in a different manner. In this sample, we found no evidence of ???horizontal??? transmission of PTS (from NG members to spouses) during the first few months after demobilization.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 12, 2015
- Accession Number
- ADA623737
Entities
People
- Rumi K. Price
- William True
Organizations
- Washington University in St. Louis