Introduction
There are significant numbers of risks associated with the military service, and the personals deployed in the combat services have to endure these risks. Women in the military are a vulnerable group to these risks, and concerns are rife whether they should continue serving in the military, especially in the combat situation. Indeed, there are recorded incidences of medical complications to women who serve in the combat operations, and unless clear roadmaps are drawn, the situation might continue impinging harder on this generation. Indeed, the plight of women as combat soldiers and veterans predisposes them to an acute challenge, and as such an obstetrician or gynecologists should be deployed to investigate about these problems, and accurate steps be taken to mitigate their conditions (Ackerman, & DiRamio, 2009).
Thesis Statement
The main thesis of this research proposal is to enumerate various health challenges that combat women and veterans face in the military service, and how these challenges could be mitigated.
Objectives of the Research paper
Research objectives are cornerstone to finding out a solution to a given problem. Therefore, the research relies entirely on these objectives, upon which their completions would realize the core solutions to the various problems. The following are some objectives that the research seeks to find out:
This research seeks to enumerate various situations that arise in the combat field
Seeks to find out the physical and mental conditions of women in the military service who have once been deployed on military expeditions
Anchored in finding health and psychological problems that combat women and veteran face
This research is objectively held in unveiling various measures that would reduce health problems to combat women and veterans.
Thus, the proposals will be steered along these four objectives, which will not only give the directives to the thesis statement, but will also provide formidable solutions to the problems experienced by veterans in the battlefield. Since, the plight of women is upheld in this research, a lot of comparative analysis will be conducted between the male and female veterans with regards to the health problems in which they are predisposed.
Research Questions
Research question play significant mandate in apprehending the research objectives. While objectives seem fulfill the thesis statement, the research questions act as a bridge towards this fulfillment. This research will invoke a number of questions, whose answers will validate the research objectives and the thesis statement.
Are women deployed to military combat situation against aggressive enemies?
Do combat women and veterans exposed to more problems than their male counterparts?
What are some health problems that combat women and b veterans face while in service?
Truncated Literature Review
The literature review shall be classified according to identified health problems that combat women and veterans are exposed while in service.
Depression
According to Ackerman, et al, (2009), there is up to twice higher depression prevalence rate in women veterans compared to their male counterparts. Depression is also associated with cases of disease-related disability to the combat women and veterans. Some of the impacts of depression in women include high risk for osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, dementia, as well as cardiovascular diseases. Besides, the research suggest that women have between 15% to 25% lifetime prevalence rate of depression compared to the predisposed level in men that stands between 4% to 12% respectively. This fact is again expressed by the fact that sex differences attributed to the female reproductive steroids on the brain generates higher susceptibility of women to depression over male colleagues.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is another health condition that combat women and veterans face while in their service. According to Miller, (2012), service women are more susceptible to PTSD compared to their male counterparts. More research shall follow in this part.
Research Design
Research design will be organized into three core elements; the core function, the information requirement and the methodology used. In the context of core function, this is a pure research since it enumerates broad issues that increase knowledge on a situation like the plight of combat women and veterans (In Baran, In Jones, 2016). On the other hand, the information requirement for this research is a combination of descriptive, exploratory and comparative in nature. For example, the comparative attributes comes in when comparing the plight of combat women and veterans against their male colleagues.
The methodology for this research proposal will adopt a mixed method approach. Mixed method entails both the quantitative and qualitative research methods (Creswell, 2013). On the quantitative front, the research will be conducted by the use of numeric data often by surveys and questionnaires. Besides, quantitative research will be grounded on the positivism theoretical paradigm. Quantitative data has significant importance to this research since it will reveal the numeric outcome to the problems faced by combat women and veterans in their services. Meanwhile, qualitative method employs more textual data, and adopts methods such as in-depth interviews and observation to the combat women and veterans so as to collect date of their health condition.
References
Ackerman, R. L., & DiRamio, D. C. (2009). Creating a veteran-friendly campus: Strategies for transition and success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Creswell, J. W. (2013). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, ©2011.
In Baran, M., & In Jones, J. (2016). Mixed methods research for improved scientific study. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, ©2011.
Iskra, D. M. (2010). Women in the United States armed forces: A guide to the issues. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger.
Miller, T. W. (2012). The Praeger handbook of veterans' health: History, challenges, issues, and developments. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger.
