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Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research
(2016-12-19)This article examines how scholarship on veterans has begun to incorporate gender as a relevant category of research. Drawing on feminist theory, it identifies different approaches to gender within the field of veterans ... -
Anxiety-related psychopathology and chronic pain comorbidity among public safety personnel
(2019-04-18)Canadian Public Safety Personnel (PSP; e.g., correctional service officers, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers) regularly experience potentially traumatic, painful, and injurious events. Such exposures ... -
Applying Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide: A Study of Altruism and Anomie Among Canadian Veterans of Afghanistan
(2015-08-20)As over 40,000 Canadian service-personnel returned from the war in Afghanistan, more than one third believe they did not make a successful transition. This study inquiries into the lived-experience of Canadian Veterans who ... -
Association of Child Abuse Exposure With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Plans, and Suicide Attempts in Military Personnel and the General Population in Canada
(2016-03-01)IMPORTANCE Recent evidence indicates a high prevalence of child abuse exposure in modern US veterans, which may explain in part their higher likelihood of suicide relative to civilians. However, the relationship between ... -
Associations of PTSD, Chronic Pain, and their Comorbidity on Cannabis Use Disorder: Results from an American Nationally Representative Study
(2019-07)Background Cannabis can be prescribed for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain, and comorbid cannabis use disorder (CUD) can occur in both conditions. Research demonstrates that PTSD and chronic pain ... -
Charting a Course to Support Military Families Navigating Service Systems for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Study
(2020-04-30)Most military families experience mandatory relocation, or posting, several times during their military career. For Canadian military families, who must access provincial or territorial health care systems, maintaining ... -
Child Abuse Experiences and Perceived Need for Care and Mental Health Service Use among Members of the Canadian Armed Forces
(2017-03-22)Objective: Child abuse is associated with poor mental health outcomes in adulthood. However, little is known about how a history of child abuse may be related to perceived need for care (PNC) and mental health service use ... -
Comorbid PTSD and Social Anxiety Disorder: Associations With Quality of Life and Suicide Attempts
(2019-09-17)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) frequently co-occur. Preliminary data from treatment-seeking and veteran samples suggest that the impact of PTSD-SAD comorbidity may be additive, ... -
Correlates of perceived military to civilian transition challenges among Canadian Armed Forces Veterans
(2020-04-30)Analyses of the Canadian Armed Forces Transition and Well-Being Survey (CAFTWS) were conducted to identify the most prominent challenges faced by Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Veterans during their military to civilian ... -
Correlates of Veteran Status in a Canadian Sample of Homeless People With Mental Illness
(2014-12)Many veterans at risk of homelessness also suffer from mental health problems. The aim of this study was to identify correlates of veteran status among housing, mental health, and service use variables in a Canadian sample ... -
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Relationship between Previous Military Experience and Mental Health Disorders in Currently Serving Public Safety Personnel in Canada
(The Canadian journal of psychiatry, 2019-12-13)Objective: There is an increased incidence of some mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in some members of the military and in some public safety personnel (PSP) such as firefighters, ... -
Deployment-Related Traumatic Events and Suicidal Behaviours in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadian Armed Forces Personnel
(2017-05-10)Objective: Worldwide, there has been substantial controversy with respect to whether military deployment is a risk factor for suicidal behaviour. The present study examined the relationship between lifetime exposure to ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Medical Health Services Utilization of Veterans Living in Ontario: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using Administrative Healthcare Data
(2016-08-04)Background Health services utilization by Veterans following release may be different than the general population as the result of occupational conditions, requirements and injuries. This study provides the first longitudinal ... -
Determinants of Successful Transition Literature Review
(2018)INTRODUCTION: To understand the current Canadian research on transition from military to civilian life, the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman (OVO) initiated a literature review of peer-reviewed work from both academic and ... -
Development and validation of a case-finding algorithm for neck and back pain in the Canadian Armed Forces using health administrative data
(University of Toronto Press, 2019-09-01)In military organizations, neck and back pain are a leading cause of clinical encounters, medical evacuations out of theatres of operations, and involuntary release from service. However, tools to efficiently and accurately ... -
Disability Correlates in Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force Veterans
(2015)Purpose: This study was undertaken to inform disability mitigation for military veterans by identifying personal, environmental, and health factors associated with activity limitations. Method: A sample of 3154 Canadian ... -
Distance-delivered Interventions for PTSD: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2016)This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of distance-delivered, guided approaches to treatment (e.g., delivered via telephone, Internet, mail, videoconferencing) for clinical and subclinical ... -
Effect of Scattered-Site Housing Using Rent Supplements and Intensive Case Management on Housing Stability Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illness A Randomized Trial
(2015-03)IMPORTANCE: Scattered-site housing with Intensive Case Management (ICM) may be an appropriate and less-costly option for homeless adults with mental illness who do not require the treatment intensity of Assertive Community ... -
Emotional Face Processing in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Reconsolidation Impairment Using Propranolol: A Pilot fMRI Study
(2015)Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exhibit exaggerated emotional reactions to threatening stimuli, which may represent deregulated fear-conditioning, associated with long-term adaptations in the sympathetic ...