Partnering to Reduce Colon Cancer Health Disparities Among the American...
American Indian and Alaska Native people experience higher rates of several cancers, including lung, colorectal, liver, stomach, and kidney cancers, compared to non-Hispanic White people in the United...
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Interactions and interviews between older adult mentor and University of North Georgia student. Mentor shares lived experiences, talks about living through difficult times, and provides lessons for...
View ArticleRuth Speaks with Mariela
Interactions and interviews between older adult mentor and University of North Georgia student. Mentor shares lived experiences, talks about living through difficult times, and provides lessons for...
View ArticleKate Speaks with Mariela
Interactions and interviews between older adult mentor and University of North Georgia student. Mentor shares lived experiences, talks about living through difficult times, and provides lessons for...
View ArticleTransformation Toward Cultural Competence: Occupational Therapy Students’...
International immersion learning experiences can be impactful, even transformational, if properly implemented to include opportunities for critical reflection. Research suggests that programs that...
View ArticleStakeholder Preferences for Process and Outcomes in Community-University...
Researchers in numerous fields assert that research partnerships involving academics and nonacademics are essential for developing solutions to pressing and complex problems. While theoretically...
View ArticleSpecial Issue Introduction: Research on the Well-being of Service Members,...
This special edition of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) is the result of a 2-year effort to identify, compile, and publish scholarly research about military-to-civilian...
View Article“I remember the skills we learned and put them into practice”: An Evaluation...
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are critical sources of support for veterans. CBOs offer innovative and informed initiatives and are often nexuses that allow veterans and their allies to gather....
View Article“If You Don’t Name the Dragon, You Can’t Begin to Slay It:” Participatory...
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans and their families are significantly affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet policy-makers and the general public often lack knowledge about TBI and other...
View ArticleMotivations of Older Veterans and Dependents in a Physical Activity Program
Motivation to engage in physical activity (PA) is of research interest due to the United States’ failure to achieve significant gains in the rates of individuals meeting national PA recommended...
View ArticleCreating Community for Women Veterans Through Social Networking...
In an effort to better understand mental health and enrichment differences between veteran women and men in a veteran service organization (VSO), a research team conducted secondary analysis of...
View ArticleCulturally Informed Interventions for Military, Veteran and Emergency Service...
There is little available research on what constitutes a culturally informed program to treat mental health conditions among military, veteran, and emergency services personnel. The current study...
View ArticlePut Yourself in My Combat Boots: Autoethnographic Reflections on Forms of...
The link that current and former service members have with the governments they serve is unique. Following Giorgio Agamben’s work on forms of life, this paper argues that those who choose to take part...
View ArticleProfoundly Changed: The Homecoming of Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan
This phenomenological research study, conducted from 2017 to 2018, rigorously and methodologically investigated Iraq and Afghanistan (OIF/OEF) veterans’ first-person accounts of their experiences of...
View ArticleHow Veterans Make Meaning of the College Choice Process in the Post-9/11 Era
The Post-9/11 GI Bill was implemented in 2009. Since then, more than 1.9 million people have used the benefits afforded by the bill to attend college, and more than $90 billion has been paid to...
View ArticleMilitary Culture and Its Impact on Mental Health and Stigma
This article reports two studies that used the Ganz Scale of Identification with Military Culture (GIMC), developed for these studies, to evaluate the relationships between military culture and...
View ArticleBenefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Managing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A...
The longevity of the United States’ armed conflicts has resulted in a substantial portion of military personnel being at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Fewer than half of veterans...
View ArticleTeaching Military Cultural Competency to Clinicians and Clinical Students:...
Military members, veterans, and their families belong to a unique American subculture. Studies have identified the need for mental health professionals to attain military cultural competency to...
View ArticleU.S. Veterans Experience Moral Injury Differently Based on Moral Foundations...
This study is the first to examine the relationship between moral foundations preferences and the severity of moral injury symptoms reported by U.S. veterans. A total of 85 participants were recruited...
View ArticleStructural Examination of Moral Injury and PTSD and Their Associations With...
Moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder are argued to be distinct yet related constructs. However, few studies have evaluated the factors distinguishing moral injury from PTSD. The present...
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