عنوان

Adapting and Validating the Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory-2 for Use in Ukraine

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TL53180

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Adapting and Validating the Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory-2 for Use in Ukraine

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kazimov, Shirin

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Voytenko, Vitaliy L.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Wheaton College

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Text of Note

190 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Psy.D.

Body granting the degree

Wheaton College

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

Direct exposure to combat is a leading cause of poor mental and physical health in veterans. New research, however, reveals complex sets of interconnected individual, social, economic, and cultural factors that increase the risk for postdeployment symptomatology. A 17-scale questionnaire was previously developed to assess psychosocial factors related to risk and resilience for military personnel. This instrument, the Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory-Second Edition (DRRI-2), has since been validated for use in the United States, French-speaking Canada, and Israel. Over the past 3 years, a war in Ukraine has caused the displacement of approximately 1.7 million people and exposed military troops and support personnel (e.g., psychologists, chaplains, volunteers) to potentially traumatic circumstances. The present study aimed to adapt and psychometrically validate the DRRI-2 for use in Ukraine. For this study, a predominantly male convenience sample of 396 military personnel (both active duty and veterans), who ranged in age from 20 to 60 years, completed a translated DRRI-2 along with existing validated Ukrainian-language measures for PTSD, depression, anxiety, and both overall physical and mental health functioning. Face validity of the Ukrainian version of the DRRI-2 was established using a focus group of military personnel. The validated version showed strong internal consistency (Cronbach's alphas ranged from .57 to .96 on the individual DRRI-2 scales). Risk factors scales positively correlated with higher levels of PTSD, depression, anxiety symptom severity, and decreased levels of physical and mental health, whereas the resilience factors scales were negatively correlated with levels of those same physical and mental symptoms. These results suggest that this new, adapted Ukrainian translation of the DRRI-2 has high reliability and is valid for use in Ukraine.

Subject Term

Clinical psychology

Subject Term

Military studies

Kazimov, Shirin

Voytenko, Vitaliy L.

Wheaton College

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[Thesis]

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