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Validating the primary care posttraumatic stress disorder screen and the posttraumatic stress disorder checklist with soldiers returning from combat.
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Assessment of the diagnostic efficiency of the Primary Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen and the Posttraumatic stress disorder Checklist as clinical screening tools for active duty soldiers recently returned from a combat deployment showed that both the PC-PTSD and PCL had good diagnostic efficiency.
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Stigma, Negative Attitudes About Treatment, and Utilization of Mental Health Care Among Soldiers
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It is found that negative attitudes about treatment inversely predicted treatment seeking among soldiers previously deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq and the need for policy aimed at reducing negative attitudes toward mental health treatment is highlighted.
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Early intervention for trauma: Current status and future directions.
Although psychological debriefing (PD) represents the most common form of early intervention for recently traumatized people, there is little evidence supporting its continued use with individuals…
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Deriving benefits from stressful events: the role of engagement in meaningful work and hardiness.
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Structural equation modeling revealed that personality hardiness was associated with being engaged in meaningful work during the deployment, which was strongly associated with deriving benefits from the deployment months after it was over.
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Insomnia as predictor versus outcome of PTSD and depression among Iraq combat veterans.
TLDR
Results support the role of insomnia in the development of additional psychological problems and highlight the clinical implications for combat veterans, to include the importance of longitudinal assessment and monitoring of sleep disturbances, and the need for early intervention.
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The impact of deployment length and experience on the well-being of male and female soldiers.
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The findings demonstrate the importance of considering the impact of exposure to long-term occupational stressors and confirm, in part, previous research that has demonstrated a different stress response pattern for men and women.
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Dimensions of psychological stress in peacekeeping operations.
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Findings suggest a range of psychological stressors that varies somewhat across operational phases of a peacekeeping mission, and several recommendations for "countermeasures" that organizational leaders can take to maintain soldier psychological readiness during peacekeeping operations.
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Battlemind debriefing and battlemind training as early interventions with soldiers returning from iraq: Randomization by platoon.
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Compared to stress education participants, large group Battlemind training participants with high combat exposure reported fewer posttraumatic stress symptoms and lower levels of stigma and, regardless of combat exposure, reported fewer depression symptoms.
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Do stigma and other perceived barriers to mental health care differ across Armed Forces?
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Concerns about stigma and barriers to care tended to be more prominent among personnel who met criteria for a mental health problem, and the pattern of reported stigma and barrier to care was similar across the Armed Forces of all five nations.
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A group randomized trial of critical incident stress debriefing provided to U.S. peacekeepers.
TLDR
For those soldiers reporting the highest degree of exposure to mission stressors, CISD was minimally associated with lower reports of posttraumatic stress and aggression, higher perceived organizational support, and more alcohol problems than SMC and SO.
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