Deployment experiences and mental health problems as predictors of post-deployment unemployment length: a prospective, register-based study among Danish soldiers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test responses of formerly deployed soldiers (FDS) to a questionnaire on deployment experiences in combination with screening levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression approximately 6 months after homecoming as predictors of the subsequent probability of gaining employment when unemployed within 5 years post-deployment.

Design, setting and participants

Danish FDS responders (n=3935) and non-responders (n=3046) to a 6-month post-deployment screening questionnaire after returning from a first-ever deployment to Kosovo, Iraq or Afghanistan (2002 to 2012) were included in the study and followed in public registers from 6 months to 5 years post-deployment.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

We tested Cox regression models including de

SUBMITTER: Elrond AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722823 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature