Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA.
J Trauma Stress. 2010 Feb;23(1):78-85. doi: 10.1002/jts.20481.
Increased exposure of women soldiers to combat in current conflicts heightens interest in the question of whether risk and resilience factors differ for female and male military personnel prior to deployment. The authors examined this question in a panel of 522 National Guard soldiers (462 men and 60 women) poised for deployment to Iraq. Soldiers completed a battery of self-report measures, including the PTSD Checklist, Beck Depression Inventory-II, and scales from the Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory. Modest differences were observed between women and men on predeployment risk factors and some risk-related correlations with PTSD and depression measures; however, gender did not moderate the associations between hypothesized risk/resilience factors and baseline mental health. Implications for interventions and future research are discussed.
在当前冲突中，女性士兵越来越多地参与战斗，这使得人们对女性和男性军事人员在部署前的风险和适应因素是否存在差异的问题产生了浓厚的兴趣。作者在一组即将部署到伊拉克的 522 名国民警卫队士兵（462 名男性和 60 名女性）中研究了这个问题。士兵们完成了一系列自我报告的测量，包括创伤后应激障碍检查表、贝克抑郁量表第二版和部署风险和适应量表。在部署前的风险因素上，女性和男性之间存在一些微小的差异，以及一些与 PTSD 和抑郁测量相关的风险相关性；然而，性别并没有调节假设的风险/适应因素与基线心理健康之间的关联。讨论了干预措施和未来研究的意义。
