Psychological distress across the deployment cycle: exploratory growth mixture model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior research has identified behavioural health outcomes as key sequelae to combat deployment. However, relatively little is known about differential patterns of change in depression or generalised anxiety linked to deployment to a combat zone. In this paper, we add to the existing trajectory literature and examine key predictive factors of behavioural health risk.

Aims

The primary aim is to leverage growth mixture modelling to ascertain trajectories of psychological distress, operationalised as a coherent construct combining depression and generalised anxiety, and to identify factors that differentiate adaptive and maladaptive patterns of change.

Method

Data were collected from a brigade combat team prior to a combat deployment to Afghanistan, during depl

SUBMITTER: Cabrera OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8142545 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature