Does recommended mental health follow-up care occur after postdeployment screening in the Canadian Armed Forces? A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine Canadian service members' level of adherence to a recommendation for mental health services follow-up that was assigned by clinicians during postdeployment screening.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Canadian military population.

Participants

The cohort consisted of personnel (n=28 460) with a deployment within the 2009-2014 time frame. A stratified random sample (n=3004) was selected for medical chart review. However, we restricted our analysis to individuals whose completed screening resulted in a recommendation for mental health services follow-up (sample n=316 (weighted n=2034) or 11.2% of screenings.

Interventions

Postdeployment health screening.

Primary outcome measure

The outcome was adherence to a screening

SUBMITTER: Boulos D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10174001 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature