Pre- or post-Gulf deployment status was assigned to conceptions using reported dates of deployment (GWV) or 1st January 1991 (NGWV, and where exact dates of deployment for GWV were not known (3% of all pregnancies reported by GWV)).
The relative risk for multiple physical symptoms by deployment status was 1.19 (95% confidence interval: 1.07, 1.34) using sample weights alone and 1.19 (1.33, 1.33) when nonresponse weights were employed.
Our measurement of deployment status was crude: If perpetration of post-deployment IPV is mediated by traumatic deployment experiences and post-deployment mental disorders, our deployed group was likely heterogeneous enough that we could have missed an important subgroup (e.g., recent Afghanistan returnees with heavy combat exposure) at increased risk for IPV.
Finally, while we were able to ascertain deployment status, we were not able to gather any information on experiences during deployment, such as combat experience or in-theater injuries, that may have also been associated with subsequent enrollment.
Because effect modification between deployment cohort and psychiatric status was statistically confirmed in all misconduct models, the three Cox regression models were stratified by deployment cohort.
In the one study to date, Trump and colleagues [ 11] found that self-reports of low health status were related to higher health needs after military deployment.
Odds ratios were derived using logistic regression analysis and were adjusted for socio-demographic (age, sex, marital status, educational status) and military (rank, Service, deployment status, role) characteristics that were associated with at least one barrier to care statement and the key variable such as serving status or mental health diagnosis.
The sample was stratified by deployment status, gender, unit component (active duty, reserve, National Guard), and branch of service (Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines).
Suicide rates were similar regardless of deployment status.
MRSA and MSSA colonization of military personnel was not associated with deployment status or doxycycline exposure.
