{"id":18171,"date":"2015-08-17T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=18171"},"modified":"2015-08-17T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:02:32","slug":"children-of-military-parents-caregivers-at-greater-risk-for-adverse-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2015\/08\/children-of-military-parents-caregivers-at-greater-risk-for-adverse-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of military parents, caregivers at greater risk for adverse outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>JAMA<\/em> Network Journals\u00a0media release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/autism-lonely-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14703\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/autism-lonely-child.jpg\" alt=\"autism lonely child\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>Children with parents or caregivers currently serving in the military had a <strong>higher prevalence of substance use, violence, harassment and weapon-carrying<\/strong> than their nonmilitary peers in a study of California school children, according to an article published online by <em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>While most young people whose families are connected to the military demonstrate resilience, <strong>war-related stressors, including separation from parents because of deployment, frequent relocation and the worry about future deployments, can contribute to struggles for some of them<\/strong>, according to the study background.<\/p>\n<p>Kathrine Sullivan, M.S.W., of the University of Southern California School of Social Work, Los Angeles, and coauthors analyzed data collected in 2013 that included 54,679 military-connected and 634,034 nonmilitary-connected secondary school students from public civilian schools in every county and almost all the school districts in California. Students were defined as military connected if they had a parent or caregiver currently serving in the military. Latino students were the largest percentage of the sample (51.4 percent) and 7.9 percent of students indicated having a parent in the military, according to the results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The results indicate military-connected students reported higher levels of lifetime and recent substance use, violence, harassment and weapon-carrying<\/strong> compared with nonmilitary-connected students. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>45.2 percent of military-connected youth reported lifetime alcohol<\/strong> use compared with 39.2 percent of their nonmilitary-connected peers<\/li>\n<li><strong>12.2 percent of military-connected youth reported recently smoking cigarettes<\/strong> in the previous 30 days compared with about 8.4 percent of their nonmilitary peers<\/li>\n<li><strong>62.5 percent of military-connected students reported any physical violence<\/strong> compared with 51.6 percent of nonmilitary-connected students<\/li>\n<li><strong>17.7 percent of military-connected youth reported carrying a weapon<\/strong> at school compared with 9.9 percent of nonmilitary students<\/li>\n<li><strong>11.9 percent of military-connected students reported recent other drug use<\/strong> (e.g., cocaine and lysergic acid diethylamide [LSD]) compared with 7.3 percent of nonmilitary peers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The authors note <strong>the data they used were cross-sectional and therefore cannot infer causality<\/strong>. The data also come from a self-report survey and students may have been reluctant to report risky behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the totality of findings from this study and others, <strong>further efforts are needed to promote resilience among military children who are struggling<\/strong>. More efforts in social contexts, including civilian schools and communities, to support military families during times of war are likely needed,&#8221; the study concludes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the JAMA Network Journals\u00a0media release: Children with parents or caregivers currently serving in the military had a higher prevalence of substance use, violence, harassment and weapon-carrying than their nonmilitary&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2015\/08\/children-of-military-parents-caregivers-at-greater-risk-for-adverse-outcomes\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[350,355,345,338,346],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18179,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions\/18179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}