Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America.
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2024 Mar 18;19(3):e0295007. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295007. eCollection 2024.
Multiple adjustment difficulties have been associated with children's exposure to recent parental wartime military deployments, but long-term consequences have not yet been systematically studied. This investigation will assess direct and indirect relationships between exposures to parental deployments early in life and later youth adjustment. Parents' psychological health and family processes will be examined as mediators, and parents' and children's vulnerability and support will be examined as moderators. Archival data will be combined with new data gathered from two children and up to two parents in families where children will be aged 11 to 16 at the first data collection and will have experienced at least one parental deployment, for at least one child prior to age 6. Data are being gathered via telephone interviews and web-based surveys conducted twice one year apart. Outcomes are indicators of children's social-emotional development, behavior, and academic performance. Notable features of this study include oversampling of female service members, inclusion of siblings, and inclusion of families of both veterans and currently serving members. This study has potentially important implications for schools, community organizations and health care providers serving current and future cohorts of military and veteran families.
儿童在成长过程中接触到父母最近的战时军事部署会带来多种调整困难，但长期后果尚未得到系统研究。本研究将评估儿童生命早期接触父母部署与后期青年适应之间的直接和间接关系。将研究父母的心理健康和家庭过程作为中介，以及父母和孩子的脆弱性和支持作为调节因素。将结合档案数据和新数据，从有 11 至 16 岁儿童的家庭中收集数据，这些家庭至少有一名儿童在 6 岁前经历过父母的部署，并且至少有一名儿童经历过父母的部署。数据通过每年两次的电话访谈和基于网络的调查收集。结果是儿童社会情感发展、行为和学业成绩的指标。该研究的显著特点包括对女性服务成员进行过抽样、包括兄弟姐妹以及包括退伍军人和现役军人家庭。本研究对为现役和退伍军人家庭的当前和未来几代人提供服务的学校、社区组织和医疗保健提供者具有潜在的重要意义。
