MILITARY FAMILIES: MEASUREMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCE ADEQUACY.
Understanding features of community strength both on and off the military installation will help identify and address the needs of military families. This study introduced a measure to identify adequacy of community resources for military families. Using confirmatory factor analysis with data from 717 service users (M age = 37.3 yr., SD = 10.6) representing four large U.S. Army installations, two domains of community resource adequacy were identified: resources on the installation and resources off the installation. This measure could be used in health research with military families and in improving resources available to this population.
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Lareina N
LN
La Flair
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Carol S
CS
Fullerton
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Stephen J
SJ
Cozza
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Holly B
HB
Herberman Mash
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
James E
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Mccarroll
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Claudio D
CD
Ortiz
1 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Robert J
RJ
Ursano
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D066067:Military Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States