Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-230).

Statistical findings during and following the recent war in regard to the mental, emotional, and social problems of the veteran give evidence of the nature and scope of the problem which America faces today. The major problem undertaken in this study involves a presentation of certain information relative to this general area.

Orientador: Lúcia Figueiredo Mourão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T12:55:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento_CamilaLima_M.pdf: 1273438 bytes, checksum: 0b89e644865e6d7951705fdb4f26d3e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Os militares constituem uma categoria profissional pouco estudada em relação à saúde vocal. A formação do Oficial do Exército Brasileiro envolve atividades específicas que podem levar a danos vocais. Um exemplo é o Programa de Treinamento Militar (PTM), que consiste em exercício de 48 horas de duração que envolve alta demanda vocal, para a produção de brados e canções, associada a intensa atividade física. Durante o exercício, a hidratação e o tempo de sono são controlados. Após abuso vocal é necessário um tempo para uma recuperação funcional e celular. O objetivo do estudo é avaliar o impacto vocal imediato após o PTM e a recuperação vocal de estudantes militares duas semanas após o PTM. Para tanto, amostras vocais de jovens adultos (entre 18 e 22 anos) foram coletadas em três momentos distintos: antes, imediatamente após e duas semanas após o PTM. Medidas fonatórias foram realizadas com produções da vogal /a/, das consoantes fricativas /s/ e /z/. Paralelamente, alguns parâmetros acústicos foram analisados com amostras de fala e da vogal /a/: frequência fundamental, jitter, shimmer, intensidade média, proporção harmônico-ruído, H1-H2, modulação de frequência, modulação de intensidade e ênfase espectral. Os parâmetros acústicos foram extraídos ou calculados a partir de dados obtidos pelo software de análise acústica Praat. Na análise estatística, o Teste T pareado foi utilizado para a comparação das diferenças entre dois momentos de coleta de dados (antes e imediatamente após PTM) e para a comparação das diferenças entre os três momentos de coleta de dados foi utilizado o teste One Way ANOVA. Para a comparação entre os dados encontrados no primeiro momento de coleta de dados e os valores normativos da literatura foi utilizado o Teste T para amostras independentes, todos com nível de significância de 0,05. Ao compararmos os dois primeiros momentos de coleta de dados, os resultados apresentaram diferenças estatisticamente significativas nas medidas fonatórias e nos valores de intensidade média e de ênfase espectral para as amostras da vogal isolada. Na comparação dos três momentos de coleta de dados, os resultados mostraram que não houve diferença significativa entre os dados do primeiro e do terceiro momento de coleta, com exceção da medida fonatória da vogal /a/, o que sugere a ocorrência de recuperação vocal após duas semanas. Há diferenças nos resultados no primeiro momento de coleta de dados (pré PTM) comparados com medidas normativas da literatura recente, sugerindo mais estudos sobre a presença de um padrão vocal característico para esse grupo / Abstract: The military are an understudied occupational category in relation to vocal health. The Brazilian Army Officer formation involves specific activities that could lead to vocal injury. One example is the Military Training Program which consists of a 48-hour exercise that involves high vocal demand to produce military command shouts with intense physical training. During the training, students are submitted to controlled hydration and sleep deprivation. After vocal abuse at least 18 hours of complete vocal rest are necessary for functional recovery. However, the cell recovery demands more time until inflammatory process ends (at least 14 days after the injury). The goal of this study is to evaluate the immediate vocal impact and the vocal recovery of military students two weeks after completion of the Military Training Program. Vocal samples from young adult males (18 to 22 years old) were collected in three moments: before, immediately after and two weeks after Military Training Program. Phonatory measures were collect using vocalization of vowel /a/ and fricative consonants /s/ and /z/. Besides, some acoustic parameters were analyzed using speech samples: fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, mean of intensity, harmonic-to-noise ratio, H1-H2, spectral emphasis, range of frequency and intensity. The acoustic parameters were extracted or calculated from software Praat. Paired samples t-test was used to statistical analysis to compare differences among the parameters between two moments (before and immediately after Military Training Program) and One way ANOVA was used to statistical analysis to compare differences among the parameters in the three moments. Independent samples t-test was used compare the data found in the first moment of data collection and normative values from the literature, all with significance level of 0.05.The results of comparison of two first moments showed significant differences in maximum phonation times, mean of intensity and spectral emphasis for sustained vowel samples. Results of comparison of three moments showed no significant differences between first and third moment, except for maximum phonation time of vowel /a/, what suggest a vocal recovery after two weeks. There were differences between first moment data (before MTP) and normative values that suggest more researches about a vocal pattern different for this group / Mestrado / Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação / Mestre em Saúde, Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação

It was the purpose of this study to provide an historical analysis of the United States Army’s dependent school program in Europe in operation since the summer of 1946. A second, though equally important, purpose for the study was to provide a description of the organization and administration of these schools in an effort to acquaint educators and interested lay-personnel with the dependent schools program in operation today.

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I am exhibiting several drawings, paintings, and sculptures representing a visual record of my creative research into, and my handling of, snails. Although I depict snails and their environment in a loose representational style, I have begun to incorporate digital drawing to enhance my art in a mixed media approach. I have created illustrative images of a forest floor as I imagine it would look to a snail in a giant, menacing world. Close-up images of grass become unusual jungle scenes, and my once tiny snails achieve a measure of control in this fanciful world. The inspiration for my art is my recollection of the insecurity and struggles I encountered while growing up as a military brat.

Initial research on moral injury has shown the construct to be associated with many negative mental health outcomes such as depression, suicidal ideation, reduced sense of belonging, anxiety, anger, and spiritual distress. In addition, moral injury among service members has also been shown to be related to experiences of interpersonal violence occurring pre-deployment. Given that social support has consistently been found to play a key role in moderating the relationship between experiences of interpersonal violence and stress and trauma related symptoms and disorders, this study will be the first to explore the relationship between experiences of interpersonal violence and moral injury, and the moderating role of social support. This study will use stepwise regression analysis to examine secondary data collected from 935 U.S. military personnel primarily from the Army National Guard. / MS / Research has found that bearing witness to or engaging in an act that goes against an individual’s own moral beliefs can lead to many negative mental health outcomes such as depression, suicidal ideation, reduced sense of belonging, anxiety, anger, and spiritual distress. Researchers and clinicians have developed the term moral injury to describe the moral distress and individual may experience after they are exposed to a morally injurious event. Moral injury among service members has also been shown to be related to traumatic experiences involving intentional harm of one individual by another, also known as interpersonal violence. Given that social support has consistently been found to play a key role in decreasing the relationship between experiences of interpersonal violence and stress and trauma related symptoms and disorders, this study will be the first to explore the relationship between experiences of interpersonal violence and moral injury, and the diminishing role of social support.

The purpose of the study is to measure satisfactions for United States retired military officers and to determine if there is a relationship between retrospective military career satisfactions and current second career or retired satisfactions. Hypothesis I states that there is a positive relationship between a retrospective measure of an officer's military career satisfactions and his current second career satisfactions. Hypothesis II states that there is a positive relationship between a retrospective measure of an officer's military career satisfactions and his retirement satisfactions. The first conclusion is that Hypotheses I and II are supported. Pearson coefficients of correlation indicate that a positive relationship exists for each hypothesis. For Hypothesis I coefficients range from .040 for pay to .270 for co-workers. All are significant at the .01 level except pay, and there is no evidence that the pay coefficient is statistically significant. The coefficients of correlations supporting Hypothesis II range from .164 for work to .415 for finances. All coefficients are significant at the .01 level. All distributions are skewed. The skewness and possible homogeniety of the sample may in all probability account for the low values of the coefficients. The second conclusion is that military officers receive greater satisfactions from their military careers than workers in civilian industry. When retrospective military career JDI means are compared with industry JDI means, the former score higher for work, promotion, and co-workers at the .01 level and supervision at the .05 level. There is no evidence of a significant difference between the two pay means. Moreover, when retrospective military JDI means are compared with current second career JDI means, the former score higher for total score, work, promotion, and co-workers at the .01 level and supervision at the .10 level. The latter score higher for pay at the .10 level. The third conclusion is that fully retired military officers receive greater satisfactions from their retired situations than retired industrial workers. The former score higher on every scale at the .01 level except for people where the level is .05. The two samples may not be comparable, but they are the only samples available. The fourth conclusion is that fully retired military officers and retired military officers currently working in a second career are about equally satisfied with their retired situations. A comparison of RDI means for each group results in no evidence of significant differences for total score and finances. Fully retired officers score 2.60 higher for work and activities and 2.45 higher for people while retired officers working in current second careers score 2.45 higher for health, all at the .01 level.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:06:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 barbara turatti.pdf: 1242937 bytes, checksum: c7e63228f9942e8b079eeec9e736f4fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-28 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / Objective:To describe cases ofabsence due to illness of the Military personnel in the state of Amazonas and test if these medical leaves in the period of 2001 and 2011 are associated to their professional military category. Method:epidemiological study of retrospective data from medical leaves of the military personnel in the state of Amazonas, registered at the medical inspection section. All the data was organized by leave causes, according to CID-10 causes and year of occurrence. The variables were: age, sex, place of birth and medical leave motive which are presented annually (number and percentage, stratified according to military ranks and the time of sick leave). The association between the categorical variables and military ranks (officersand non commissioned officers) was tested by chi-square Fisher test; the variance in means were tested by the t-Student test, considering significance <= 5%. The percentage difference was calculated by the percentage variation by chapter according to the first and the second half of the period(2001-2006 and 2007-2011) and the total (2001-2011). Results:Among the 4146 cases reported of medical leave, 3455(83,3%) were non commissioned officerswith a time leave average of 26,9 days (standard deviation = 0,31) and 691 (16,6%) officers with an average of 29,7 days (standard deviation = 0,9). Most of the leaves among the non commissioned officersoccurred between ages of 18 and 29 (52,5%), naturalness of Amazonas (50,3%), 1 to 30 days in males (97,5%) and > 30 days in females (5,4%). Most of the officers leaves occurred between ages of 30 and 39 (38,9%) followed by those with age above 50 (31,7%), natural from Rio de Janeiro state (20,8%) and medical leave time > 30 days. The main causes of sick leave among sergeantswere musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (41,4%) and among officers were mental and behavioral disorders (23,3%).The percentage variation shows a growth of the leave s causes from musculoskeletal and connective tissue disordersand summarizedconvalescence. Conclusion:The results of this study allow us to visualize the profile of the cases of sick leave among military personnel and the association that exists between illness causes and military ranks, confirming the hypothesis that particular characteristics from each groupactivities are related to specific correlated illness occurrences. / Objetivo: Descrever o perfil dos casos de afastamento por motivo de doença dos militares do Exército em serviço no estado do Amazonase testar se as causas desses afastamentosno período de 2001 a 2011estão associadas à categoria profissional do militar.Método: estudo epidemiológico de dados retrospectivosde afastamentos de militares em serviço no estado do Amazonas, registrados na seção de perícias médicas. Os dados foram organizados por caso de afastamento, causas conforme a CID-10 e ano de ocorrência. As variáveis foram: idade, sexo, naturalidade e motivo do afastamento, as quais são apresentadas anualmente (número e percentual, estratificando conforme a patente militar e o tempo de afastamento). A associação entre as variáveis categóricas e a patente do militar (praça e oficial), foi testada pelo qui-quadrado de Fisher;as diferenças de médias foram testadas pelo teste t-Student, considerando significância <= 5%. A diferença percentual foi calculada pela variação percentual por capítulo da CID, conforme a primeira e a segunda metade do período (2001-2006 e 2007-2011) e ototal (2001-2011). Resultados: Dos 4146 casos de afastamentos por licença médica, 3455 (83,3%) eram praças com média de tempo de afastamento de 26,9 dias (desvio padrão=0,31) e 691 (16,6%) oficiais com média de 29,7 dias (desvio padrão=0,9). A maioria dosafastamentos entre os praças ocorreu na faixa etária de 18 a 29 anos (52,5%), naturalidade no estado do Amazonas (50,3%) e de 1 a 30 dias no sexo masculino (97,5%). Para os oficiais a maioria dos afastamentos ocorreu na faixa etária de 30 a 39 anos (38,9%)seguidos daqueles com idade ≥50 anos (31,7%), naturalidade no estado do Rio de Janeiro (20,8%) e tempo de afastamento >30 dias. As principais causas de afastamentos entre os praças foram as doenças do sistema osteomuscular e do tecido conjuntivo (41,4%) e entre os oficiais foram ostranstornos mentais e comportamentais (23,3%). A variação percentual mostra crescimento dos afastamentos por doenças do sistema osteomuscular e do tecido conjuntivo; e redução dos casos de convalescença. Conclusão:Os resultados deste estudo permitem visualizar o perfil dos casos de afastamento em militares do Exército e a associação que existe entre as causas de adoecimento e a patente, confirmando a hipótese de que asdiferenças quanto às causas e o tempo de afastamento ocorrem de acordo com a patente, refletida pelas atividades desenvolvidas em cada uma das categorias profissionais de militares.

Project (Ed.S.)--James Madison University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.