Publications by authors named "T McGee"
Background: Military veterans residing in rural areas face unique challenges that can impact their wellbeing, including limited access to healthcare resources, social isolation, and distinct environmental stressors. Despite growing interest in veteran wellbeing, there remains a gap in understanding how service-connected disabilities and health conditions intersect with wellbeing in rural contexts.
Methods: This study employed a comprehensive approach to investigate the relationships between wellbeing, service-connected disabilities, and health outcomes among rural veterans.
Article Synopsis
- Experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) are linked to various mental health issues, suggesting a potential two-way relationship between the two.
- A study utilized data from participants at ages 14, 21, and 30 to explore how poor mental health in youth could predict IPV in adulthood, focusing on factors like delinquency and substance use.
- Findings indicate that issues such as substance use disorders at age 21 are strong predictors of various types of IPV at age 30, highlighting the potential advantages of early intervention programs to mitigate future IPV.
Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether family poverty over the early childhood, adolescent, and adult periods of the life course independently predicts experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood.
Study Design: This was a birth cohort study in Brisbane, Australia, with pregnant women recruited at their first booking-in visit and their children, followed up to 30 and 40 years of age.
Methods: Family income was obtained from the mother when the child was 6 months, 5 and 14 years of age.
Background: Preterm and/or low birthweight (PT/LBW) is predictive of a range of adverse adult outcomes, including lower employment, educational attainment, and mental wellbeing, and higher welfare receipt. Existing studies, however, on PT/LBW and adult psychosocial risks are often limited by low statistical power. Studies also fail to examine potential child or adolescent pathways leading to later adult adversity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Evidence supports the conceptualization of adult attachment as existing along a continuum of attachment security and insecurity; however, ongoing debates persist regarding the use of categorical versus continuous approaches to studying attachment. Attachment data collected from a large community sample of mothers and their offspring in young adulthood were used to examine i) latent classes of adult attachment, ii) associations between mother and offspring attachment, iii) the relationship between adult attachment and mental health symptoms.
Methods: Mothers and offspring were each administered the Attachment Style Questionnaire when offspring were aged 21-years.