Predeployment predictors of psychiatric disorder-symptoms and interpersonal violence during combat deployment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing suicides, mental disorders, and noncombat-related interpersonal violence during deployment are priorities of the US Army. We used predeployment survey and administrative data to develop actuarial models to identify soldiers at high risk of these outcomes during combat deployment.

Methods

The models were developed in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) Pre-Post Deployment Study, a panel study of soldiers deployed to Afghanistan in 2012-2013. Soldiers completed self-administered questionnaires before deployment and one (T1), three (T2), and nine months (T3) after deployment, and consented to administrative data linkage. Seven during-deployment outcomes were operationalized using the postdeployment surveys. Two over

SUBMITTER: Rosellini AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6212319 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature