PICO Element

Search Terms

Population: Serving members

Milita*; Soldier*; Officer*; Infantry; Defen$e; Arm*; Navy; Air force*; Armed service*; Marine; Combat*; Armed force*; Military personnel [MeSH]

Intervention: Serving in a defence force

Serv*; Deploy*; Enlist*; Duty; Post*; Station*; Assign*; Combat; Armed service

Comparator:

N/A—identified via screening. Civilian couples and families with neither partner or neither parent ever serving in a defence force. The comparator could be an in-study control group or in text reported population normative data.

Outcomes: Family structure, family or couple relationship quality

Divorc* OR separat* OR marriage OR marital OR relat* OR couple OR famil* OR Conflict OR communic* OR Quality