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Occupational Trauma and Mental Illness: Combat, Peacekeeping or Relief Work and the NCS-R
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Dec 2011
Source: J Occup Environ Med. 53(12):1360-1363. -
Alternative Title:J Occup Environ Med
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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.
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Pubmed ID:22173283
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC3243957
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