Rothberg J M, Koshes R J, Shanahan J, Christman K
Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC.
Mil Med. 1994 Mar;159(3):246-8.
We undertook a study of selected mental health-related services at a combat support post to determine if stress levels surrounding Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm had an effect on the utilization of these services. Our measure was the problem rate formed by adding the visits to the alcohol and drug service and the social work service. The findings (not all of which reached statistical significance in our small study) were that the problem rates were higher in those units which deployed, both before and after deployment. The pre-deployment differences in age, rank, and race between those soldiers deployed and not deployed is a finding which may help to account for the difference between units. There was a transient, but not sustained, problem rate increase immediately following return home for those units which deployed. Implications for mental health-related services staffing and directions for further research are discussed.
我们对一个战斗支援基地的特定心理健康相关服务进行了研究，以确定“沙漠盾牌行动”/“沙漠风暴行动”期间的压力水平是否会对这些服务的使用产生影响。我们的衡量标准是将酒精和药物服务以及社会工作服务的就诊次数相加得出的问题发生率。研究结果（在我们的小型研究中并非所有结果都具有统计学意义）表明，已部署部队在部署前后的问题发生率都更高。已部署和未部署士兵在部署前的年龄、军衔和种族差异这一发现，可能有助于解释各部队之间的差异。对于已部署部队而言，回国后问题发生率立即出现了短暂但未持续的上升。文中还讨论了对心理健康相关服务人员配备的影响以及进一步研究的方向。
