{"id":189775,"date":"2022-08-30T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=189775"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:26:45","slug":"military-service-has-transgenerational-impact-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/08\/military-service-has-transgenerational-impact-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Service Has Transgenerational Impact Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\u00a0<\/em>(JAACAP<\/em>), published by Elsevier, reports that while children of veterans\u2019 families\u00a0possess several socioeconomic advantages, including higher familial income, health insurance, and married caregivers, they also have higher rates of clinically recognized externalizing behavioral disorders, including ADHD and conduct problems, and adverse childhood experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the US concludes nearly two decades of military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, the persisting effects of war on veterans and their children are of renewed concern,\u201d said lead author Tanner Bommersbach, MD, MPH, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Bommersbach conducted the study with co-authors Robert Rosenheck, MD, and Greg Rhee, PhD, of UConn Health and UConn School of Medicine<\/a> and the Yale Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the research on military children has been focused on children of active-duty service members, but less is known about the potential transgenerational effects of military service on children after service has ended,\u201d said Bommersbach.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren from veteran families are more likely to experience clinically-recognized externalizing mental health problems than those from non-veteran families,\u201d shared Rhee of UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Public Health Sciences. \u201cFuture research on moderating roles of parenting and family functioning on mitigating such mental health conditions is needed. Also, future research is needed of long-term trajectories of their educational performance as well as mental health well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

These findings are based on a secondary analysis of data from the 2018-2019 National Survey of Children\u2019s Health (NSCH). The NSCH is a parent-reported nationally representative survey of non-institutionalized children in the US.<\/p>\n

The authors compared school-age children of veterans\u2019 families (n = 4,028) to those of non-veterans\u2019 families (n=38,228) across a large number of parent-reported sociodemographic, physical and mental health, access to care, and school performance factors. Parents were asked whether their children had ever been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, ADD\/ADHD, or conduct problems. The authors used multivariate analyses to adjust for socioeconomic factors that could potentially confound the analysis.<\/p>\n

The study found that aside from increased rates of clinically recognized ADHD and conduct problems, there were few other substantial differences between children of veterans\u2019 and non-veterans\u2019 families in other clinical conditions, including chronic medical problems, anxiety, depression, and school performance measures. The study did find that children of veterans\u2019 families were reported to experience greater adverse childhood experiences, especially living with someone who is mentally ill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile future studies are needed to better understand the specific factors that may be associated with higher rates of clinically recognized child mental health problems in veterans\u2019 families, the findings point to the potential benefit of developing more targeted services for veterans\u2019 children,\u201d explains Bommersbach. \u201cService systems working with veterans may consider integrating screening for child mental health problems and parenting challenges. Such programs may aid in early detection of child behavioral problems and support children of veterans and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite socioeconomic advantages, children of veteran families were found to have higher rates of clinically-recognized externalizing conditions and adverse childhood experiences. The collaborative study findings by Yale, Mayo Clinic, and UConn School of Medicine are published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":164202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407,2076,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-189775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-notes","category-research","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:02:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189776,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189775\/revisions\/189776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/164202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189775"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=189775"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=189775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}