Letter to the editor

摘要

I was intrigued to read the article titled, "'No One Gets Through It OK': The Health Challenges of Coming Home From War, '"in the July-Septeniber issue of Advances in Nursing Science. This article caught my attention because I am an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran attending college. I was pleased to see the qualitative approach to acquiring data on the health challenges faced by reintegrating veterans of war. The author captured many of the same obstacles I faced while reentering my civilian life. The term "flipping the switch" particularly resonated with me because this term was used frequently during my time of military service.I feel that there are benefits to listening and analyzing firsthand accounts of the experiences that are troubling returning veterans; a simple postdeployment survey does not allow for that intimate exchange. However, I feel that combining both qualitative and quantitative data, in a mixed-method approach, will give the researcher a much more accurate assessment of an individual's condition.