New issue of Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health is open access
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Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health
Volume 2 No. 1, April 2016
JMVFH Online – http://bit.ly/jmvfh21
JMVFH Flipbook – http://bit.ly/jmvfh21u
Editorial
New perspectives in military, Veteran and family health
Alice B. Aiken, Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger
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In Graphics
Are MSK injuries a hidden threat to the Canadian Armed Forces?
Luc J. Hébert
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Perspectives
Learning from the Deschamps Report: why military and Veteran researchers
ought to pay attention to gender
Maya Eichler
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Research
Transitioning from military to civilian life: the role of mastery and social
support
Krystal K. Hachey, Kerry Sudom, Jill Sweet, Mary Beth MacLean, Linda D.
VanTil
The Survey on Transition to Civilian Life (STCL) was created to measure the
adjustment outcomes of recently released Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)
members. The survey was administered to a sample of CAF regular force
members released from 1998 to 2007. The aim of the current study was to
examine resources that promote the successful adjustment to civilian life.
Specifically, the goal was to conduct a secondary analysis of the STCL that
examined the roles of mastery and social environment (that is, community
belonging and satisfaction with support) in the transition to civilian life,
as well as how these variables correlate with health and life stress.
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Being by myself and believing in us: the experience of pregnancy and
childbirth during an intimate partner's military deployment
Christian Patchell, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Glenda Carson, Deborah Tamlyn
Pregnancy and childbirth are life-altering events. For military families,
pregnancy and childbirth can occur in tandem with the family's experience of
a military deployment. The central issue is that an overseas deployment of
an intimate partner introduces unique stressors and responsibilities that
can challenge a pregnancy and increase the risk of preterm delivery and
postpartum depression. The objective of this study was to extend current
understanding, from the perspective of women in Canadian military families
of how pregnancy and childbirth are experienced during an intimate partner's
military deployment and of how supports and resources shaped the experience.
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Screening questions to identify Canadian Veterans
Linda D. VanTil, James M. Thompson, Mary Beth MacLean, David J. Pedlar
In Canada, there are an estimated 700,000 Veterans of the Canadian military.
Veterans are disproportionately prevalent in sub-populations of males,
persons with chronic physical conditions, chronic pain, mental health
conditions, and those with disabling activity limitations. Veterans are a
population of interest to Canadian researchers, but there is no publicly
available comprehensive list of Veterans in Canada. This creates a need for
a standard set of screening questions suitable for self-report surveys. This
article proposes a series of screening questions to identify Canadian
Veterans.
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Description of a longitudinal cohort to study the health of Canadian
Veterans living in Ontario
Alyson L. Mahar, Alice B. Aiken, Paul Kurdyak, Marlo Whitehead, Patti A.
Groome
Social determinants of health are associated with the risk of disease and
health services utilization. Understanding the distributions of sex, age,
income, and other demographic variables in Canadian Veterans and how they
change over time is necessary to optimize service delivery and enhance
research validity. This study describes the demographic patterns over time
and by age at release in an Ontario cohort of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)
and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Veterans following release.
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Reviews
Functional rehabilitation criteria required for a safe return to active duty
in military personnel following a musculoskeletal injury: a scoping review
Nadine Houghton, Jared Maynard, Alice B. Aiken
The objective of this article is to assess the types of musculoskeletal
(MSK) injuries commonly affecting military personnel and the outcome
measures that may be used to predict a safe return to active duty
post-injury.
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Measures of spirituality for use in military contexts: a scoping review
Suzette Brémault-Phillips, Lori-Ann R. Sacrey, Joanne Olson, Jeanne Weis,
Terry Cherwick
The purpose of this scoping review is to identify measures of spiritual
fitness that can be used in a military context.
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Mental health of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans: review of population
studies
James M. Thompson, Linda D. VanTil, Mark A. Zamorski, Bryan Garber, Sanela
Dursun, Deniz Fikretoglu, David Ross, J. Donald Richardson, Jitender Sareen,
Kerry Sudom, Cyd Courchesne, David J. Pedlar
The mental health of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) populations emerged as an
important concern in the wake of difficult CAF deployments in the 1990s.
This article is the first comprehensive summary of findings from subsequent
surveys of mental health and well-being in CAF Veterans, undertaken to
inform mental health service renewals by CAF Health Services and Veterans
Affairs Canada (VAC).
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Arts and Humanities
Leading change in Canadian military medicine: determinants of success,
1685–2016
Robert Engen, Allan English
Success in military force health protection has more to do with the creation
of systems of knowledge, efficient organizations, and command responsibility
for the implementation of best practices than it does with the development
of novel medical technologies or treatments. To achieve success, military
leaders, both commanders and senior medical personnel, must be able to lead
change effectively to create these systems in their organizations. Even in
recent times, military forces have suffered crippling preventable losses
when public health best practices were not implemented properly. Yet at
various times in Canadian history, certain military leaders achieved
noteworthy success in force health protection by systemic implementation of
best practices. This article uses concepts articulated in Canadian Armed
Forces leadership publications, especially those related to institutional
and strategic leadership, as the analytical framework to assess which
determinants of military medical leadership might still be applicable today.
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Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health
The Canadian Institute for Military & Veteran Health Research and the
University of Toronto Press are pleased to present the Journal of Military,
Veteran and Family Health(JMVFH). http://bit.ly/jmvfh
The aim of this new open-access journal is to maximize the health and social
wellbeing of military personnel, Veterans, and their families by
disseminating world-class research to a broad international and
multidisciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners, administrators,
and policy makers. The cutting edge nature of research published in JMVFH
enables clinicians working to address particular challenges, establish best
practices and share preliminary results from new therapies that will lead to
the next great breakthroughs. JMVFH is edited by Alice Aiken and Stéphanie
Bélanger, and managed by Mike Schaub.
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