ArticleJournal of military, veteran and family health2023
Identifying potentially morally injurious events from the Veteran perspective: A qualitative descriptive study.
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- An expert-driven consensus framework for the study of potentially morally injurious events and their impacts: findings from an e-Delphi study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Moral injury research at a crossroads: assumptions, limitations, and the promise of relational reorientation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Where do moral injuries come from? A relational conception of moral practice and experience.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2025Article
- Restore and Rebuild (R&R) - a feasibility pilot study of a co-designed intervention for moral injury-related mental health difficulties.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Current conceptualizations of potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) emphasize war atrocities. However, additional research on the breadth of PMIEs could inform provision of patient-centred care for those experiencing moral injury. This study sought to gain a more in-depth understanding of Veterans' experiences surrounding PMIEs. Methods: Semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with 32 Veterans who agreed or strongly agreed that they witnessed, did not stop (despite believing they could have), did things they felt were morally wrong during their time in a war zone, or any combination of these. Participants were asked what is important to know about such events and probed to describe the events in whatever level of detail they felt comfortable. Applied thematic analysis was used to code and analyze the data, including structural and content coding. Coding discrepancies were resolved by mutual consensus. Results: In addition to war atrocities, analyses revealed types of events that may be overlooked as potentially morally injurious but that were salient to Veterans: 1) fraud, waste, and abuse, 2) animal cruelty, 3) bullying and reputation smearing, 4) infidelity, 5) racism and sexism, 6) morally abhorrent practices, and 7) events outside the military. Veterans also reported and described multiple events at once or over time given multiple deployments and time in service rather than identifying a single specific PMIE. Discussion: The field would benefit from an operationalization of PMIEs not only grounded in empirical data and meaningful to clinicians but that also accounts for the perspectives of the Veterans who experienced PMIEs.
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