Parent-child separation: A comparison of maternally and paternally separated children in military families

Applewhite, Larry; Mays, Robert A.

doi:10.1007/bf01876593

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“…14,16 Previous research has documented the differences between paternally and maternally separated children. 19 One possible explanation is that the mothers remaining at home may be more likely to manifest their own mental health issues or that mothers are more likely to transfer their own mental health symptoms onto the child. In the 2006 Military Spouse Survey, 62% of spouses reported an increase in anxiety during a deployment.…”

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“…18 The effects of deployment can also differ depending on the gender of the deployed parent. 19 These observations, however, have not directly linked parental deployment to clinically significant pediatric mental or behavioral health disorders. 20,21 Changes in behavior that lead a caregiver to seek medical attention for a child signal a more significant impact of parent-child separation than crosssectional measurements or surveys of child behavior.…”

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Wartime Military Deployment and Increased Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Complaints

2010

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT:Military deployment of a parent influences children's behavior in a variety of settings. The clinical significance of these deployment-associated behavior changes has not been determined. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:Children experiencing separation from a parent due to wartime military deployment have an 11% increase in outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health complaints, which contrasts with a general deploymentassociated decrease in health care visits in all other diagnostic categories.abstract BACKGROUND: Children of military personnel face stress when a parent deploys. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine the effect of parental military deployment on the relative rate of outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health disorders in children aged 3 to 8 years. METHODS:This was a retrospective cohort study. Records of children of active-duty personnel during fiscal years 2006 and 2007 were linked with their parent's deployment records. Mental and behavioral health visits were identified by using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) of visits per year according to parental deployment status was determined with random-effects negative binomial regression modeling with longitudinal data analysis. RESULTS: A total of 642 397 children aged 3 to 8 years and 442 722 military parents were included. Mean child age was 5.0 years (SD: 1.9 years); 50.6% were male, and 68.0% were white. Ninety percent of the parents were male, and 90.5% were married; 32.0% of the parents were deployed during the study. There were 1 049 081 person-years with 611 115 mental and behavioral health visits (0.6 visit per year). The IRR of mental and behavioral health visits for children with a deployed parent compared with when a parent was home was 1.11 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.07-1.14; P Ͻ .001). IRRs of pediatric anxiety, behavioral, and stress disorders when a parent deployed were 1.14 (95% CI: 0.98 -1.32; P ϭ .095), 1.19 (95% CI: 1.07-1.32; P Ͻ .001), and 1.18 (95% CI: 1.10 -1.26; P Ͻ .001), respectively. Older children and children with military fathers and married parents had larger increases in rates of mental and behavioral health visits during parental deployments. In contrast, the overall outpatient rate and rates of visits for other diagnoses decreased when a parent was deployed. CONCLUSIONS: Mental and behavioral health visits increased by 11% in these children when a military parent deployed; behavioral disorders increased 19% and stress disorders increased 18%. Rates especially increased in older children and children of married and male military parents.

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Wartime Military Deployment and Increased Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Complaints

2010

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“…Her findings showed no difference in levels of anxiety or psychopathology when considering the threat of war. Comparably, Applewhite and Mays (1996) demonstrated that psychosocial functioning in military children did not differ based upon maternal or paternal separations. In his study, 55 fathers and 55 mothers completed survey packets to identify predictors of child psychosocial functioning.…”

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Deployment of Military Mothers during Wartime

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2012

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“…One study specifically looked at how gender of the deployed parent affected children and did not find significant differences in child adaptation between fathers versus mothers who were deployed. 25 Strong coping skills during deployment predicted greater adaptation after deployment.…”

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