title: The effect of father absence on the psychiatric hospitalization of Navy children.
abstract: Some Navy families are subject to unusual stress in that the active duty parent may be deployed for several months at a time. This study examined children and adolescents from Navy and civilian families who were admitted to a private psychiatric hospital. Deployment of the father placed Navy children and adolescents at risk for psychiatric hospitalization, but mainly in non-intact families where step-parents or single parents were present. Deployment may strain an already vulnerable family structure in selected Navy families.
authors.affiliation: University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ackermann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hammock
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D009326:Naval Medicine; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015406:Single Parent; D014481:United States