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Young children in military families are about 10 percent more likely to see a doctor for a mental difficulty when a parent is deployed than when the parent is home, researchers are reporting today in the most comprehensive study to date of such families’ use of health insurance during wartime.
Visits for mental-health concerns, such as anxiety and acting out at school, were the only kind to increase during deployment; complaints for all physical problems declined, the study found.
Experts said the new study, being published in the journal Pediatrics and including more than half a million children, significantly fills out the picture of the strains on the entire family as multiple deployments have become a norm.
