Veterans Day Focus: Tech Could Help Former Soldiers Readjust To Civilian Life

In the study, a group of 74 recently demobilized veterans agreed to wear a device on their wrist 24/7 as well as self-report through a brief daily questionnaire. The goal was to observe how the use of real-time data collected passively (through remote measurement) and actively (via a survey) could help with routing trauma sufferers to behavioral health therapists and other health care specialists as needed, says Shaddy Saba, assistant professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and a co-author of the study looking at PTSD and cannabis abuse among veterans.

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