Pre and post deployment questionnaires are routinely administered now and in-theater suicide briefs have become mandatory.
He admitted lying on a post-deployment questionnaire about what he had seen and suffered because he just wanted to get back to his family.
Mid- and post-deployment questionnaire of this large population of deployed troops also allowed detailed assessment of self-reported respiratory infection, perceived impact on performance, and associated risk factors and demographics.
Use of a post-deployment questionnaire in our study is likely to have resulted in under-reporting of exposure, while Sanders et al utilised active case-surveillance through mid-deployment and post-deployment surveys to identify diarrheal cases.
The NAMRU-3 IRB, Cairo, Egypt, approved the original data collection using the self-report deployment health questionnaire, under protocol DoD# NAMRU3.2005.0012.
Additionally, the median time between the first deployment and questionnaire completion was eight years both Bougainville and East Timor participants, so further recall bias is possible.
AJR coordinated the design and deployment of both questionnaires.
Finally, in addition to the PBQ-SR, the following questionnaires were administered after deployment only: – Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire – Self Report (PDEQ): The PDEQ is a 10-item, 5-point-Likert-scaled, self-report questionnaire assessing peritraumatic dissociation.
