The transitional compensation (TC) program of the U.S. Army provides financial and other benefits to the families of service members discharged for child or spouse maltreatment. We analyzed the TC records of the 347 offenders, 337 spouses (160 victims and 177 nonvictims) who were applicants for benefits, and 820 children (244 victims and 576 nonvictims). One hundred fifty-two spouses were physi...

The focus of this paper is on the working status of the spouse of an unemployed. Does it systematically differ from the working status of the spouse of an employed person? If so, are there any causal-or non-causal mechanisms behind such an interrelationship, and in that case what are they? So far, there has not been any study in Norway focusing on unemployment at the household level. This paper...

OBJECTIVE To identify determinants for discharge destination of older (≥ 70 years) and younger (< 70 years) acute stroke patients. DESIGN Multicentre prospective cohort. PATIENTS A total of 395 patients, within 7 days of clinically evaluated stroke, were included from 6 hospital stroke units. METHODS The main outcome measure was discharge destination (home vs clinical rehabilitation). Ind...

Social anxiety disorder is an invalidating psychiatric disorder characterized by extreme fear and avoidance of one or more social situations in which patients might experience scrutiny by others. The goal of this two-generation family study was to delineate behavioral and electrocortical endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder related to social evaluation. Nine families of patients with socia...