Literature Review/Introduction

My research proposal is PTSD in Veterans and suicide

1) My question is what are the causes of PTSD in veterans and how successful is the current treaments and support systems in place to help them.

2) These are my articles

· Alyson K. Zalta, Philip Held, Dale L. Smith, Brian J. Klassen, Ashton M. Lofgreen, Patricia S. Normand, … Niranjan S. Karnik. (2018). Evaluating patterns and predictors of symptom change during a three-week intensive outpatient treatment for veterans with PTSD. BMC Psychiatry, (1), 1. https://doi-org.ucamia.cobimet4.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1816-6

i) This article is about the intense study of evident based study on the treatment and success of a three-week outpatient program. It shows the statistics on the success rate of the program and how it can be implemented and modified to get the most optimal success rates.

· Ashley N. Clausen, Joan Thelen, Alex J. Francisco, Jared Bruce, Laura Martin, Joan McDowd, & Robin L. Aupperle. (2019). Computer-Based Executive Function Training for Combat Veterans With PTSD: A Pilot Clinical Trial Assessing Feasibility and Predictors of Dropout. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi-org.ucamia.cobimet4.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00062

i) This article is about a new treatment to explore the feasibility of placebo-controlled, computerized, home-based executive function training (EFT) on psychological and neuropsychological function and brain activation in combat veterans with PTSD

· Dorthe Varning Poulsen. (2017). Nature-based therapy as a treatment for veterans with PTSD: what do we know? Journal of Public Mental Health, 16(1), 15–20. https://doi-org.ucamia.cobimet4.org/10.1108/JPMH-08-2016-0039

i) This paper is about an alternative method of treating PSTD and it has to do with a more holistic approach and a more natural treatment method instead of strong medications.

· Harold G. Koenig, Donna Ames, & Arndt Büssing. (2019). Editorial: Screening for and Treatment of Moral Injury in Veterans/Active Duty Military With PTSD. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi-org.ucamia.cobimet4.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00596

i) this article is about a new form of PTSD called MI or moral injury. MI defined as the emotional, spiritual, and moral consequences of committing and/or observing others commit transgressions and how it affects them.

· Katherine D. Hoerster, Sarah Campbell, Marketa Dolan, Cynthia A. Stappenbeck, Samantha Yard, Tracy Simpson, & Karin M. Nelson. (2019). PTSD is associated with poor health behavior and greater Body Mass Index through depression, increasing cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk among U.S. veterans. Preventive Medicine Reports. https://doi-org.ucamia.cobimet4.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100930

i) This article talks about how PTSD is associated and is clinically proven to worsen and lead to poor health behaviors, depression which leads to CVD and diabetes.