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Mental health among reserve component military service members and veterans.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.
- Military service and alcohol use: a systematic narrative review.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Examining the protective effect of motherhood status on alcohol use: comparing outcomes of US Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers and Civilian Women.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Predicting externalizing symptom trajectories in U.S. National Guard recruits: The role of adverse childhood experiences.Journal of traumatic stress · 2026Article
- An evaluation of the impact of social determinants of health in military reservists.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- US Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers' motivations for joining the military and their effects on post-deployment mental health.Armed forces and society · 2025Article
- Self-perceptions of mental health among U.S. Veterans and non-Veterans: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2025Article
- The Association of Risk-Related Behaviors and Mental Health Symptomatology on Problematic Alcohol Use Among U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
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- Mental health of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans: Review of population studies.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2024Review
- United States Army Reserve/National Guard soldiers' healthcare experiences, attitudes, and preferences: Differences based on deployment status.Psychology, health & medicine · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Effects of Military Separation and Mental Health Symptomatology on Substance Use Among a Cohort of Reservists.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- The relationship of risk-related behaviors and substance use among U.S. Army National Guard/Army Reserve soldiers and deployment differences.Journal of military social work and behavioral health services · 2024Article
- Military combat exposure and risk domains: assessing associations in current and former U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.Journal of military social work and behavioral health services · 2024Article
- Stressful life events and incident depression among U.S. military personnel.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic Responses among National Guard Service Members: Stressors, Coping Strategies, Sleep Difficultiesand Substance Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Sex differences in the relation between military sexual trauma and risk for alcohol misuse among U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Cannabis Use and Perceptions Among Current and Former Military Service Members.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- The Role of Military Identity in Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes among U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Article
- Drug use over time among never-deployed US Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers: The longitudinal effects of non-deployment emotions and sex.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Article
- Differences in alcohol screening and alcohol problems among United States veterans based on military service history.Psychological services · 2022Article
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Abstract
Since 2001, the US military has increasingly relied on National Guard and reserve component forces to meet operational demands. Differences in preparation and military engagement experiences between active component and reserve component forces have long suggested that the psychiatric consequences of military engagement differ by component. We conducted a systematic review of prevalence and new onset of psychiatric disorders among reserve component forces and a meta-analysis of prevalence estimates comparing reserve component and active component forces, and we documented stage-sequential drivers of psychiatric burden among reserve component forces. We identified 27 reports from 19 unique samples published between 1985 and 2012: 9 studies reporting on the reserve component alone and 10 reporting on both the reserve component and the active component. The pooled prevalence for alcohol use disorders of 14.5% (95% confidence interval: 12.7, 15.2) among the reserve component was higher than that of 11.7% (95% confidence interval: 10.9, 12.6) among the active component, while there were no component differences for depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. We observed substantial heterogeneity in prevalence estimates reported by the reserve component. Published studies suggest that stage-sequential risk factors throughout the deployment cycle predicted alcohol use disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and, to a lesser degree, depression. Improved and more standardized documentation of the mental health burden, as well as study of explanatory factors within a life-course framework, is necessary to inform mitigating strategies and to reduce psychiatric burden among reserve component forces.
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