Nutrition and Food Security Among Veterans: Operationalizing Nutritional Functioning.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess injured military veterans' experiences, beliefs, and daily physical and psychosocial functioning in relation to food and nutrition.

Design

We used a convergent mixed-methods study design and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health to operationalize the core constructs and influencing factors related to physical and psychosocial functioning, food, and nutrition.

Setting

Three Veterans Affairs polytrauma rehabilitation centers.

Participants

Veterans who served in the United States military on or after September 11, 2001, and whose medical diagnoses met the criteria for polytrauma; at least 1 mild traumatic brain injury and at least 1 associated comorbidity (eg, posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic musculoskele

SUBMITTER: Brostow DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12355539 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature