title: [Adjustment disorder during military service].
abstract: Adjustment disorders in soldiers of mandatory military service are one of most frequent causes of early military discharges. Their occurrence brings about economic, social and medical consequences.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The analysis of reasons and circumstances for adjustment disorders in solders of mandatory military service accepted by Medical Military Boards as unfit for military service.
  
  
  METHODS
  Studies included 91 cases of soldiers of mandatory military service hospitalised at the Psychiatry Clinical Department of Psychiatry in 10th Clinical Military Hospital in Bydgoszcz for the occurrence of symptoms of adjustment disorder acc. to criteria ICD-10 and certified by Medical Military Boards. The examined soldiers were at the age of 19-24, and the period of their military service ranged from one week to three months. To evaluate statistical correlations chi-square test (chi2) was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Before the call-up, more than a half of the soldiers revealing symptoms of adjustment disorder lived in the country or in big urban agglomerations. Those soldiers had primary or vocational education certificates and every third was brought up in one-parent family. In the tested population of soldiers there was found a statistical relation between the appearance of adjustment disorders and the education of soldiers' mothers, parents' diseases and factors impeding their military service.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Factors conducive to adjustment disorders under conditions of mandatory military service in the studies carried out included: education of soldiers' mothers, raised difficulties while serving in the army and parents' diseases.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Psychiatrii Dorosłych Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Łodzi. ann.kamrowska@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamrowska
authors.forename: Antoni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Florkowski
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology