Factors associated with depression on a hospital ship deployed during the Persian Gulf War

Citation
Al. Slusarcick et al., Factors associated with depression on a hospital ship deployed during the Persian Gulf War, MILIT MED, 166(3), 2001, pp. 248-252
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
MILITARY MEDICINE
ISSN journal
00264075 → ACNP
Volume
166
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
248 - 252
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-4075(200103)166:3<248:FAWDOA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Investigators surveyed health care providers (N = 250) deployed to the Pers ian 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 exp erience with the dying and the dead were significant predictors of depressi on. Military training, although not associated with the experience of depre ssion, was negatively correlated with concern about injury.