Well-being of Canadian Armed Forces members during the COVID-19 pandemic: the influence of positive health behaviours. [PDF]
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can, 2022 INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to increased depression, anxiety and other adverse mental health outcomes. Understanding the behaviours that positively influence health is important for the development of strategies to maintain ...
Sudom KA, Lee JEC.
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Course and Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A Nationally Representative, 16-Year Follow-up Study: Cours et prédicteurs du trouble de stress post-traumatique dans les Forces armées canadiennes: une étude de suivi de 16 ans nationalement représentative. [PDF]
Can J Psychiatry, 2021 Objective: This study examined baseline risk and protective predictors and interim correlates of the persistence/recurrence, remission, and onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a 16-year prospective, nationally representative sample of ...
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Retrospective cohort study of compliance with post-deployment screening in the Canadian Armed Forces [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel who return from certain international deployments are required to complete post-deployment screening (PDS) 90 to 180 days post-deployment; the primary goal of PDS is early detection of mental health ...
Peter J H Beliveau +2 more
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Disability and Mental Disorders in the Canadian Armed Forces. [PDF]
Can J Psychiatry, 2016 Objectives: The initial goal was to validate the use of a self-report measure of disability in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The main goal was to document the extent of disability in personnel with and without mental disorders. Methods: Data were obtained from the 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey; the sample included 6700 Regular Forces ...
Weeks M, Garber BG, Zamorski MA.
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Dried plasma for trauma resuscitation: from Canadian Armed Forces to civilian prehospital and rural settings. [PDF]
CMAJPrifti V, Dion PM, Beckett A, Singh K.
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The Canadian Armed Forces medical response to Typhoon Haiyan. [PDF]
Can J Surg, 2015 In the setting of international disaster response, an important challenge is determining when it is appropriate to withdraw deployed assets as the acute disaster response transitions to recovery and rebuilding. We describe our experience with realtime data collection during our medical response to Typhoon Haiyan as a means to guide military aid mission
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Spiritual Dimensions of Moral Injury: Contributions of Mental Health Chaplains in the Canadian Armed Forces [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Moral Injury (MI) describes the profound distress experienced by military personnel as a result of a violation of personal beliefs. Impacting not only psychological, but spiritual, health, and well-being, MI is associated with spiritual/religious (S/R ...
Lorraine A. Smith-MacDonald +2 more
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The relation between adverse childhood experiences and moral injury in the Canadian Armed Forces
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2019 Background: There is increasing evidence that moral injuries (MIs) may affect the mental health of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members and veterans. Despite knowledge suggesting that MIs are related to multiple negative mental health outcomes, including ...
Anthony M. Battaglia +10 more
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Mental Health Service Utilization in Depressed Canadian Armed Forces Personnel. [PDF]
Can J Psychiatry, 2019 Background: Major depression is prevalent, impactful, and treatable in military populations, but not all depressed personnel seek professional care in a given year. Care-seeking patterns (including the use of primary vs. specialty care) and factors associated with the likelihood of mental health service utilization in depressed military personnel are ...
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Research in Health Services & Regions, 2023 Background Though research among Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS) personnel is limited, the literature suggests formal healthcare is underused. Though much research has been conducted on particular barriers (e.g., stigma), examining a breadth of ...
Jennifer Born, Christine Frank
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