Beyond Battlemind: Evaluation of a New Mental Health Training Program for Canadian Forces Personnel Participating in Third-Location Decompression

Zamorski, Mark A.; Guest, Kim; Bailey, Suzanne; Garber, Bryan G.

doi:10.7205/milmed-d-12-00064

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“…46 The educational program was a major contributor to the program's perceived value, 47 and a later revision to the program was associated with significantly better short-term outcomes. 48,49 The TLD data were also used in a cross-national comparison of stigma and barriers to care, showing lower rates in the CAF than in its allies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, or New Zealand. 50 Several studies have exploited data collected as part of the Recruit Health Questionnaire, a routine survey administered to CAF recruits since 2003.…”

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The 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey

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The 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey (CFMHS) collected detailed information on mental health problems, their impacts, occupational and nonoccupational determinants of mental health, and the use of mental health services from a random sample of 8200 serving personnel. The objective of this article is to provide a firm scientific foundation for understanding and interpreting the CFMHS findings. Methods: This narrative review first provides a snapshot of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), focusing on 2 key determinants of mental health: the deployment of more than 40,000 personnel in support of the mission in Afghanistan and the extensive renewal of the CAF mental health system. The findings of recent population-based CAF mental health research are reviewed, with a focus on findings from the very similar mental health survey done in 2002. Finally, key aspects of the methods of the 2013 CFMHS are presented. Results: The findings of 20 peer-reviewed publications using the 2002 mental health survey data are reviewed, along with those of 25 publications from other major CAF mental health research projects executed over the past decade. Conclusions: More than a decade of population-based mental health research in the CAF has provided a detailed picture of its mental health and use of mental health services. This knowledge base and the homology of the 2013 survey with the 2002 CAF survey and general population surveys in 2002 and 2012 will provide an unusual opportunity to use the CFMHS to situate mental health in the CAF in a historical and societal perspective. Abré gé Objectif : L'Enquête de 2013 sur la santé mentale dans les Forces canadiennes (ESMFC) a recueilli une information détaillée sur les problèmes de santé mentale, leurs effets, les déterminants professionnels et non professionnels de la santé mentale, et l'utilisation des services de santé mentale dans un échantillon aléatoire de 8200 militaires en activité. L'objectif de cet article est d'offrir une fondation scientifique solide pour comprendre et interpréter les résultats de l'ESMFC. Mé thodes : Cette revue narrative offre d'abord un portrait des Forces armées canadiennes (FAC), axé sur deux principaux déterminants de la santé mentale : le déploiement de plus de 40 000 militaires pour soutenir la mission en Afghanistan et le renouvellement approfondi du système de santé mentale des FAC. Les résultats d'une récente étude sur la santé mentale dans la population menée par les FAC sont examinés, parallèlement aux résultats de l'enquête sur la santé mentale très semblable menée en 2002. Enfin, les principaux aspects des méthodes de l'ESMFC de 2013 sont présentés.

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“…In a series of studies involving group randomized trials, the Battlemind mental health training program was shown to significantly reduce the mental health symptoms associated with PTSD, depression, and sleep in combat veterans returning from Afghanistan (Adler, Bliese, McGurk, Hoge, & Castro, 2009; Castro, Adler, McGurk, & Bliese, 2012). Since its introduction over a decade ago, other resilience-based training programs have expanded upon the Battlemind concepts, yet all the while maintaining its core elements (Zamorski, Guest, Bailey, & Garber, 2012). …”

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The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research

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European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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This paper reviews the psychological health research conducted in the United States in support of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, using the Military Psychological Health Research Continuum, which includes foundational science, epidemiology, etiology, prevention and screening, treatment, follow-up care, and services research. The review is limited to those studies involving combat veterans and military families. This review discusses perplexing issues regarding the impact of combat on the mental health of service members such as risk and resilience factors of mental health, biomarkers of posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), mental health training, psychological screening, psychological debriefing, third location decompression, combat and suicide, the usefulness of psychotherapy and drug therapy for treating PTSD, role of advanced technology, telemedicine and virtual reality, methods to reduce stigma and barriers to care, and best approaches to the dissemination of evidence-based interventions. The mental health research of special populations such as women, National Guardsmen and reservists, and military families is also presented. The review concludes by identifying future areas of research.

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“…Promoting controlled alcohol use is deemed important since alcohol misuse is prevalent among UK AF personnel 5. Other nations, such as The Netherlands, France and Canada all make use of decompression in a variety of forms, but only Canada has published a review of their decompression arrangements 6 7. Canada currently delivers a 3–5-day package in Cyprus where personnel are accommodated in hotels and are given spending money; French arrangements are for 3 days in Cyprus; the Dutch provide 3 days in Crete; Australia provides in-theatre rest with a psychologist interview when deployment is over, and the US provides a period of ‘normalisation’ in the home garrison prior to leave.…”

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Can mental health and readjustment be improved in UK military personnel by a brief period of structured postdeployment rest (third location decompression)?

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Beyond Battlemind: Evaluation of a New Mental Health Training Program for Canadian Forces Personnel Participating in Third-Location Decompression

Abstract: All of these findings point to the superiority of the new program. However, quasi-experimental approaches are bias-prone, and it is unknown whether these advantages will translate into meaningful improvements in well-being.

Cited by 19 publications

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The 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey

The 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey

The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research

Can mental health and readjustment be improved in UK military personnel by a brief period of structured postdeployment rest (third location decompression)?

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