Characteristics of Deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom Military Personnel Who Seek Mental Health Care

Abstract

Screening instruments were well accepted and useful in detecting psychopathological conditions and functional impairment. Female service members might represent a high-risk group. These results are useful for those caring for service members during or after deployment.

Does ethnicity influence in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth outcomes?

“…Although the findings of the Feinberg et al (9) are compelling, the analysis of armed forces personnel potentially limits its generalizability to the civilian population because of the fact that members of the armed forces have different comorbidities compared with the general population (18). Armed forces personnel are inherently different from the general population because of preenlistment medical screening, service-related physical conditioning/performance requirements, job-related exposures, and medically related honorable discharge (18,19).…”

Noncardiac Chest Pain During War

“…[10][11][12][13] Among these risk factors, young age, smoking, certain food intake, and coexisting psychopathology, may be more prevalent among deployed service members. [14][15][16] In November 2002, the US Medical Command set up the Deployed Warrior Medical Management Center (DWMMC) to coordinate medical evacuations from OIF and OEF to Landstuhl, Germany, and orchestrate the management of wounded soldiers. In the ensuing years, DWMMC has assumed several additional roles, one of which is the maintenance of a database on medically evacuated personnel.…”

A comparison of OEF and OIF veterans and Vietnam veterans receiving cognitive processing therapy

“…Vietnam veterans have been the focus of much mental health research investigating the impact of combat exposure (Kulka et al, 1990), the potential long-term effects of combat and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Koenen et al, 2008), and the PTSD treatment process (Elliott, Biddle, Hawthorne, Forbes, & Creamer, 2005). Recent research suggests that military personnel serving in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) return with similar mental health concerns to previous eras, including PTSD, depression, substance abuse, and generalized anxiety disorder (Felker, Hawkins, Dobie, Gutierrez, & McFall, 2008;Hoge et al, 2004;Jacobson et al, 2008).…”