| Preface |
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| Summary |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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Chapter One Introduction and Study Overview |
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Chapter Two Background: DoD's Policy Toward Military Members and Their Families over Time |
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DoD Commitment to Military Families Has Grown Significantly Since World War I |
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Evidence Linking Support to Military Personnel and Families to Outcomes Is Limited |
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Understanding Family Needs Is a Central Feature of Today's DoD Policy |
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Limitations in Approaches to Learning About Service Member and Family Needs Lead to a New Approach |
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Resource Allocation Data Analyses Are Unable to Control for Influential Factors Not Captured in the Datasets |
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10 | (1) |
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Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Programs |
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11 | (1) |
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Surveys of Service Members and Spouses Have Not Placed Service Member and Family Needs at the Center |
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Focus Groups and Face-to-Face Interview Studies: Impractical for Large-Scale Data Collection |
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A Framework for a New Approach |
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Chapter Three Development of the Service Member and Family Needs Survey |
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Concept for a New Needs-Focused Survey Instrument |
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Subject Matter Experts Inform Framework and Survey Content |
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22 | (1) |
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Drawing on Previous Research to Inform the Survey Development |
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23 | (1) |
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Deployment-Related Issues |
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24 | (6) |
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24 | (1) |
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Postdeployment Family Reunification |
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29 | (1) |
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Ensuring That the Framework, Content, and Method Fits Today's Families: Focus Groups with Soldiers, Marines, Spouses, and Support Providers |
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30 | (5) |
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32 | (1) |
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Participant-Recommended Study Methods |
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33 | (2) |
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Chapter Four Developing the Service Member and Family Needs Survey Structure |
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Problems in the Past Year |
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Needs Linked to Greatest Problems |
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40 | (3) |
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Characteristics of Military and Nonmilitary Resources Used and Not Used to Meet the Greatest Needs |
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43 | (2) |
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Ability of Resources to Meet Greatest Needs for Greatest Problems |
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Projected Impact of Loss of Resources |
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Outcome Indicators: Satisfaction and Desire to Remain in the Military |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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Chapter Five Testing, Refining, and Assessing the Relative Value of a Prototype Instrument |
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Testing the Instrument with Soldiers, Marines, and Spouses |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (4) |
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The Average Length of Time to Complete the Survey Was Within Our Goals |
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50 | (1) |
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The Problems and Needs Lists Needed Additional Development |
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50 | (1) |
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The Most Common Routes to the Survey Varied |
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51 | (1) |
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All Eligible Respondents Chose to Complete the Survey Online, Rather Than to Call In |
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52 | (1) |
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Most Participants Reported No or Few Competing Requests for Research Participation |
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52 | (1) |
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Participants Likely Differ Demographically from the Population, but DoD Demographic Data on Spouses Are Limited |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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Assessing the Contribution of the Sample Survey Instrument |
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54 | (4) |
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55 | (1) |
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Comparing Surveys by Determining How Well They Describe a Hypothetical Family |
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55 | (3) |
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58 | (3) |
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Chapter Six Implementation Challenges |
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Challenges to Obtaining Adequate Survey Participation |
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61 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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Dissemination Challenges and the Air Force Climate Survey Model |
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64 | (3) |
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Chapter Seven Potential Contributions of the New Methodology |
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67 | (8) |
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Information for Leaders and Decisionmakers |
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67 | (5) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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Military Departments and DoD |
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71 | (1) |
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Other Applications of the Framework |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (2) |
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A Sample Survey of Service Member and Family Needs |
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75 | (42) |
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117 | (6) |
| Bibliography |
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