Occupational Trauma and Mental Illness: Combat, Peacekeeping or Relief Work and the NCS-R

Connorton, Ellen; Perry, Melissa J.; Hemenway, David; Miller, Matthew

doi:10.1097/JOM.0b013e318234e2ec

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Occupational Trauma and Mental Illness: Combat, Peacekeeping or Relief Work and the NCS-R

Published Date:

Dec 2011

Publisher's site:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e318234e2ec New Site Icon

Source:

J Occup Environ Med. 53(12):1360-1363.

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Personal Authors:

Connorton, Ellen ; Perry, Melissa J. ; Hemenway, David ; Miller, Matthew ;

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Pubmed ID:

22173283

Pubmed Central ID:

PMC3243957

Description:

Objective

Peacekeepers, relief workers and military members experience multiple traumas, and trauma is believed to increase risk for psychiatric distress. We examined whether combat and/or peacekeeping or relief work was associated with subsequent mental illness.

Methods

Using data from the US National Co-morbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) (n = 2,383), we estimated whether combat, peacekeeping or relief work were associated with increased prevalence of mental illness through bivariate cross-tabulations and multivariate logistic regression.

Results

Combat was associated with increased subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol or drug issues more than peacekeeping or relief work.

Conclusions

Combat, alone or combined with peacekeeping/relief work, appears to be a risk factor for subsequent PTSD and issues with drugs and alcohol. Peacekeeping/relief work without combat does not appear to be associated with these diagnoses.

Document Type:

Journal Article

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CDC Public Access

Funding:

R25 CA057711/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
R25 CA057711-13/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
R25CA057713/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
T42 OH008416/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States

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