The veteran suidice rate in 2019, according to the 2021 National Veteran Suicide Annual Report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The report indicates that this is "substantially higher than the rate among non-Veteran US adults (16.8 per 100,000)."
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Intervention for Chronic Pain for Military and Police.
● The barriers, benefits and training needs of clinicians delivering psychological therapy via video.
● Elucidating the Association Between Military Sexual Trauma Types and Different Types of Risky Behaviors.
Over the last several decades we’ve learned a lot about the role of bias in the way that individuals are treated in the healthcare setting. Race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity and orientation, disability status or special health care needs, geographic location (rural and urban) can all have a dramatic impact on the type and quality of health care we receive.
The percentage of "Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care patients" in states with "legalized medical cannabis" who "endorsed past-year cannabis use," according to a study published online ahead of print in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors -- Prevalence of medical and nonmedical cannabis use among veterans in primary care.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Applying polyvictimization theory to veterans: Associations with substance use and mental health.
● The rapid anti-suicidal ideation effect of ketamine: A systematic review.
● Military Stressors, Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality, and Adolescent Adjustment.