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Record W4411673574 · doi:10.1080/13533312.2025.2521345

‘Trying to Fix What is Broken’: Experiences of Encountering Children in Armed Conflict During Military Service

2025· article· en· W4411673574 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Peacekeeping · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsRoyal Military College of CanadaLawson Health Research InstituteDalhousie UniversityCentre for Addiction and Mental HealthMount Saint Vincent University
FundersCanadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health ResearchMount Saint Vincent UniversityU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVeterans Affairs Canada
KeywordsMilitary serviceArmed conflictService (business)Political sciencePeacekeepingPsychologyCriminologyComputer securityPublic administrationLawEconomicsComputer scienceEconomy

Abstract

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Canadian Armed Forces Veterans, clinicians, and researchers (n = 39) engaged in Participatory Action Research to enhance understanding of the mental health impacts of deployment-related encounters with children and to identify recommendations to better prevent, mitigate, and address the mental health effects of these encounters. Four key findings emerged: (1) the variation and gendered experiences and impacts of encounters with children; (2) the need for pre-deployment education around concepts of moral injury, military culture and childhood; (3) the role of military institutional readiness and proactive leadership support in mitigating the impacts of potentially morally injurious encounters with children; and (4) a requirement for long-term, comprehensive and integrated services, spanning formal and informal networks, to support personnel impacted by encounters with children. This research reveals that centreing shared experiences through participatory and trauma-informed approaches in military mental health research offer meaningful insights on addressing moral injuries related to encounters with children.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.739
Threshold uncertainty score0.628

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it