OBJECTIVE To summarize scholarly literature that describes practice, utilization, and/or policy of chiropractic services within international active duty and/or veteran health care environments. DATA SOURCES PubMed, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Index to Chiropractic Literature were searched from their starting dates through June 2009. REVIEW METHODS ...

Veterans and Military Service Members are separate independent cultures. As a principle element, clinicians seek to become culturally competent develop therapeutic rapport improve treatment outcomes. Previous research has identified that mental health providers must be treat the Veteran population effectively. There vital elements need assessed: specific contextual knowledge, professional compe...

Abstract Positive social capital-building outcomes were identified in a longitudinal evaluation of veteran-specific initiative supporting desistance from crime and substance misuse. A secondary analysis the qualitative data generated is presented here. We identify three transformational subjective re-alignments across veteran cohort who sustained their engagement mutual aid initiative. These ar...

Suicide is a leading cause of veteran deaths in the United States. Importantly, student veterans with more favorable perceptions suicide prevention may be likely to engage such efforts. Social justice identity includes commitment action. Therefore, social justice-oriented commit mission protect themselves and others. This study sought examine how predicts veterans’ prevention. Cross-sectional s...

Almost one out of ten Rhode Island residents is a US veteran. About 30,000 of them get their care at the VA. Their needs reflect both the aging demographic of World War II and Korean War veterans now in their 80s and younger men and women returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The veteran population also tends to be sicker, with more medical conditions, overall poorer health, and to use ...

Twenty male veteran endurance runners and 20 controls underwent resting, exercise, and ambulatory electrocardiography. Four athletes and three controls satisfied voltage criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy. The PR interval was longer in the athletes and they had longer mean (SD) treadmill exercise times (19 (4) v 16 (2) min) than the controls. Four athletes but no controls had greater tha...

This study explores differing landscape perceptions of Bukhansan National Park according to the degree of visitors’ familiarity, and discusses the utilization of commonality and diversity of landscape perception in sustainable landscape management. Visitor-employed photography (VEP) was used to capture the overall response to experiencing landscape directly on-site. According to the degree of f...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a highly prevalent distressing condition for individuals in both community and community primary care settings. However, despite the high prevalence of GAD identified in epidemiological studies, little is known about GAD and its related symptoms and impairments in veteran populations. The present study investigated the prevalence, comorbidity, physical and ...

A biological abnormality found to be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be, among other things, a pretrauma vulnerability factor, that is, it may have been present prior to the event's occurrence and increased the individual's likelihood of developing PTSD upon traumatic exposure. Alternately, it may be an acquired PTSD sign, that is, it may have developed after the trauma...