BACKGROUND Mobile health (mHealth) technologies exhibit promise for offering patients and their caregivers point-of-need tools for health self-management. This research study involved the dissemination of iPads containing a suite of mHealth apps to family caregivers of veterans who receive care from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Administration and have serious physical or mental injuries. ...

background: social confidence is considered an important element in entrepreneurship. objectives: given the importance of employment and entrepreneurship of veterans, the present research aimed to determine the status of social confidence in veteran entrepreneurs of zanjan province. methods: in this survey. the statistical sample included all veteran entrepreneurs of zanjan province with an ent...

INTRODUCTION Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing and ending homelessness among this population. Homeless veterans are at higher risk for chronic disease; understanding the dynamics of homelessness among veterans can contribute to our understanding of their health needs. METHODS We obtained data on demographic characteristics a...

Individuals with chronic pain often report using cigarettes to cope, and smoking and chronic pain appear prevalent among US veterans. Pain may be a barrier to cigarette cessation and abstinence in this population. Because of physiological effects, smoking cigarettes may also interfere with pain management. A better understanding of how cigarette use relates to pain may assist in veteran cigaret...

Daughters and daughters-in-law of presently unmarried elders were studied longitudinally, and the data were analyzed to determine how two transitions in caregiving status affected the women of the younger generation. One transition compared noncaregivers who had become caregivers 1 year later ("caregiving entrants," n = 33) with continuing noncaregivers (n = 56) and with veteran continuing care...

Purpose of the Work. While medicine typically proceeds in a sequential fashion based on primary symptoms, sometimes relying on a parallel, mechanism-of-injurybased approach is advantageous, particularly when the mechanism of injury is associated with a variety of known sequelae. This article describes an example of a mechanism-of-injury-based program, namely, a Blast Injury Program at the James...

Purpose of the Work. The review examines techniques of performance analysis in energy storage and return (ESAR) prosthetic feet, synthesizes clinical study results reported in the literature, suggests a technically accurate and common terminology, and proposes a novel method of foot classification for use in prosthetic research, design, and prescription. Procedures. An array of techniques has b...