Academic Centre for Defence Mental Health, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Weston Education Centre, King's College London, 10 Cutcombe Road, London SE59RJ, UK.
Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2010 Aug;83(6):653-63. doi: 10.1007/s00420-009-0504-8. Epub 2010 Jan 6.
Research into how individuals perceive their deployment experiences is important for understanding the association between stressful events and subsequent positive or negative effects. This study examines perceptions among UK military personnel with regard to rewarding and unrewarding aspects of deployment in Iraq.
Analyses were carried out on 5,573 UK military personnel who had deployed to Iraq between 2003 and 2006. Information on socio-demographic and military characteristics; deployment experiences, including perceptions of rewarding and unrewarding aspects of service; and information on current health, were collected with questionnaires. Associations between deployment and health factors, and participants' perceptions of service were examined.
The rewarding aspects of deployment were related to military tasks such as "doing the job you were trained to do", "teamwork/comradeship" and altruistic aspects such as "helping local people". The unrewarding aspects were "being separated from family and friends" and "quality of supply and equipment". Although there was general agreement on the aspects that mattered to most Service personnel, there were differences associated with operation deployed to, enlistment type, rank, service and psychological health. Those with a psychological problem were more likely to find most military aspects of deployment unrewarding but were more likely to find helping the local population and working with other coalition forces rewarding.
This study demonstrates how the perceptions of deployment, in terms of rewarding and unrewarding aspects, are shaped by service characteristics, mental health and operation deployed to.
研究个体如何感知他们的部署经历对于理解应激事件与随后的积极或消极影响之间的关系非常重要。本研究考察了英国军人对 2003 年至 2006 年期间在伊拉克部署期间有回报和无回报方面的看法。
对 5573 名曾在 2003 年至 2006 年间部署到伊拉克的英国军人进行了分析。调查问卷收集了关于社会人口统计学和军事特征；部署经历，包括对服务有回报和无回报方面的看法；以及当前健康信息。研究了部署与健康因素之间的关联，以及参与者对服务的看法。
部署的有回报方面与军事任务有关，例如“做你受过训练的工作”、“团队合作/同志情谊”以及利他主义方面，如“帮助当地人民”。无回报方面是“与家人和朋友分离”和“供应和设备质量”。尽管大多数军人对最重要的方面有普遍的共识，但与部署的行动、入伍类型、军衔、服务和心理健康有关。有心理问题的人更有可能发现大多数军事部署方面没有回报，但更有可能发现帮助当地人民和与其他联军部队合作是有回报的。
本研究表明，从有回报和无回报方面来看，对部署的看法是由服务特征、心理健康和部署行动塑造的。
