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Community-Based Participatory Care to Combat Veterans

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Combat veterans are a vulnerable group that serves the military in combat zones. This kind of group experiences a lot of challenges when serving, including mental health issues. Even after their services and after returning to their homes, they experience a lot of problems, such as struggling to meet their needs (Westphal& Convoy, 2015). When in service, it means that you are separated from family members, which is often stressful. Mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is caused by stress. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach used to conduct research involving members of the community. The CBPR project can help identify some of the problems faced by this group. This paper discusses the cons and pros of implementing a Community-Based Participatory Research health promotion project with combat veterans.

Through the implementation of the Community-Based Participatory Research health promotion project, the veteran group can primarily benefit because most healthcare practitioners are willing to collaborate. Nurses who initiate and implement health promotion plans try to work within the cultural context with the involved vulnerable group (Johnson &Koocher, 2017). The practitioners try much to develop and work out plans to engage the combat veterans. Though most of these veterans may seem uninterested, healthcare personnel can understand, recognize, and assess this vulnerable group's importance, thus instigating health promotion plans and services also aimed to support military family wellbeing.

The CBPR health project is aimed at collecting research to improve the lives of different vulnerable groups. An advantage of this research project includes exploring perceptions as well as overall knowledge from the combat veterans. CBPR joins with the community to make a comprehensive research of a vulnerable group, to minimize disparities. As stated above, this group is exposed to a lot of health problems that need attention. With the American generation influenced and defined by military war, more combat veterans qualify for VHA, but fewer are enrolled (Johnson &Koocher, 2017). Healthcare practitioners have no straight impact on combat veterans' maintenance and care. The purpose of the health promotion plan is to address the needs of this vulnerable group because it’s a fact that half of their lives are usually at risk.

Flexibility and awareness are some of the cons of implementing CBPR. As their health lives include more downs than ups, it’s better to know the limits of combat veterans and self-awareness. Some of the things that are likely to make a combat veteran not wanting to participate in this kind of project are the fact that many of them suffer from physical disabilities, like being on a wheelchair due to war injuries, while others are experiencing brain injuries, sprains and strains and so on (Westphal& Convoy, 2015).

Ethical issues can serve as barriers, or cons of implementing the CBPR project. Reason being that combat veterans are mindful of ethical implications. Confidentiality is a factor that this group doesn’t want to endanger, so they stay tight and hold up information. Combat veterans’ ethical practices (personal and professional) are liable on actual submission of private and cultural scruples as well as professional rules (Oster et al. 2019). They are not allowed to share any information outside their job areas, so implementing the health promotion plan to people who often and hardly share information based on their workplaces is hard. Culture can also serve as a con because not every person or combat veteran exhibits cultural beliefs and behavior characteristics.

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Johnson, W. B., &Koocher, G. P. (2017). Ethical issues in the treatment of suicidal military personnel and veterans. Retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-30847-011

Oster, C., Lawn, S., & Waddell, E. (2019). Delivering services to the families of Veterans of current conflicts: a rapid review of outcomes for Veterans. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 5(2), 159-175. Retrieved from https://jmvfh.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jmvfh.2018-0011

Westphal, R., & Convoy, S. (2015). Military culture implications for mental health and nursing care. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 20(1), 47-54. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b7da/7677a4a05cccf93995e2f704a1263a0c2af8.pdf