Factors associated with depression on a hospital ship deployed during the Persian Gulf War.
Investigators surveyed health care providers (N = 250) deployed to the Persian Gulf on the USNS Comfort hospital ship days before the beginning of the Persian Gulf War in 1990. In this article, we identify factors associated with the development of depression during deployment. Age, gender, negative life events, stress from trauma-related work demands, and occupational experience with the dying and the dead were significant predictors of depression. Military training, although not associated with the experience of depression, was negatively correlated with concern about injury.
Slusarcick
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Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA.
Ursano
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Dinneen
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Fullerton
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019156:Indian Ocean; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009326:Naval Medicine; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012767:Ships; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014857:Warfare