ArticleAmerican journal of public health2010
A prospective study of depression following combat deployment in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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- Resilience to mental health problems and the role of deployment status among U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- The Mediation Effect of Hyperarousal Symptoms on the Relationship Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Suicidal Ideation of Patients With PTSD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Is deployment status the critical determinant of psychosocial problems among reserve/guard soldiers?Psychological services · 2020Article
- Problems with social acceptance and social victimization predict substance use among U.S. Reserve/Guard soldiers.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2020Article
- Prospective study of polygenic risk, protective factors, and incident depression following combat deployment in US Army soldiers.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Machine Learning Methods to Evaluate the Depression Status of Chinese Recruits: A Diagnostic Study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
- Longitudinal trajectories of comorbid PTSD and depression symptoms among U.S. service members and veterans.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- Depressive Syndromes Associated with Alcohol Dependence.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2019Article
- The Military Extremity Trauma Amputation/Limb Salvage (METALS) Study: Outcomes of Amputation Compared with Limb Salvage Following Major Upper-Extremity Trauma.The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe investigated relations between deployment and new-onset depression among US service members recently deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
methodsWe included 40 219 Millennium Cohort Study participants who completed baseline and follow-up questionnaires and met inclusion criteria. Participants were identified with depression if they met the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire criteria for depression at follow-up, but not at baseline.
resultsDeployed men and women with combat exposures had the highest onset of depression, followed by those not deployed and those deployed without combat exposures. Combat-deployed men and women were at increased risk for new-onset depression compared with nondeployed men and women (men: adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=1.32; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.13, 1.54; women: AOR=2.13; 95% CI=1.70, 2.65). Conversely, deployment without combat exposures led to decreased risk for new-onset depression compared with those who did not deploy (men: AOR=0.66; 95% CI=0.53, 0.83; women: AOR=0.65; 95% CI=0.47, 0.89).
conclusionsDeployment with combat exposures is a risk factor for new-onset depression among US service members. Post-deployment screening may be beneficial for US service members exposed to combat.
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