Comparing U.S. Army Suicide
The study was design to compare variables collected in the DoDSER system for individuals who died by suicide during the study period of analogous data collected from a randomly selected control group of military service members (Alexander, Reger, Smolenski & Fullerton, 2014). Information on 123 suicide victims was taken from the DoDSER data collection system. The data collection consists of medical and personal records reviews, investigations and interviews reports. The control participants were randomly selected from a database maintained by the Army Human Resource System and candidates voluntarily participated. A one-hour structured interview was conducted with all participants. Out of 444 randomly chosen only …show more content…
The quantitative study used information from the Danish Civil Registration System (CRS) of soldiers deployed from 1990-2009. Subjects that were excluded were the ones invalid CRS numbers, no mission data, mini missions and no soldiers who did not deployed during this period. Out of 22991 soldiers identified a random sample of 3000 was chosen anonymously, by age, gender and missions, 1264 completed the survey (Ejdesgaard et al., 2015). Out of the 1264 soldiers, 90.3% males, 6.2% females, 45.3% between age 21-25,65.5% unmarried, 31.3% married, common length of deployment was 6 months and 51.4% had 2 or more deployments. Suicide ideations was reported by 13.5 % and suicide attempts was 1.7%Ejdesgaard et al., 2015). The backward regressive model was used to make the comparison. The study was divided into 3 themes, covering events before, during and after the war. The study findings before deployment, suicide ideations were tied to drug abuse and finance. During deployment heavy workloads was an issue and after deployment the lack of athletic and recreation. The author listed some interventions that is needed to help reduce risk factors, such as, support from families, a good activity and recreation program. The author listed some limitations, such as a need for larger …show more content…
Data was collected on 874 suicide cases from, 2001-2009, from the Army Behavior Health Integrated Data Environment. Comparison data was collected from the Defense Medical Surveillance System database and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. Seventy-five percent of suicide occurs in the U.S, 20% in a combat theater and 5 % was listed as others (Black et al., 2011). Men commit suicide at a higher rate than females. Fifty-four percent of suicides were not mental health related and 41% had a mental health diagnosis. Data collected included information on social cultural, military risk factors, psychological and environmental risk factors and suicide event characteristics. Sociocultural include information on age, race/ethnicity, marital status, rank, component status and deployment history. Suicide committed by males 94.6 % as opposed to females 5.4%, age group 18-25 has the higher rate of suicide 45%, African American 69% less likely to commit suicide than Caucasian/Whites. Psychological risk factors show that 54% of suicide were not reported as having mental health diagnosis and 46% had mental health diagnosis. Event characteristics and environmental stressors shows that 38% had history of planning suicide, 21 % had communicated thought prior to committing suicide, and 19% reported as
The study was design to compare variables collected in the DoDSER system for individuals who died by suicide during the study period of analogous data collected from a randomly selected control group of military service members (Alexander, Reger, Smolenski & Fullerton, 2014). Information on 123 suicide victims was taken from the DoDSER data collection system. The data collection consists of medical and personal records reviews, investigations and interviews reports. The control participants were randomly selected from a database maintained by the Army Human Resource System and candidates voluntarily participated. A one-hour structured interview was conducted with all participants. Out of 444 randomly chosen only …show more content…
The quantitative study used information from the Danish Civil Registration System (CRS) of soldiers deployed from 1990-2009. Subjects that were excluded were the ones invalid CRS numbers, no mission data, mini missions and no soldiers who did not deployed during this period. Out of 22991 soldiers identified a random sample of 3000 was chosen anonymously, by age, gender and missions, 1264 completed the survey (Ejdesgaard et al., 2015). Out of the 1264 soldiers, 90.3% males, 6.2% females, 45.3% between age 21-25,65.5% unmarried, 31.3% married, common length of deployment was 6 months and 51.4% had 2 or more deployments. Suicide ideations was reported by 13.5 % and suicide attempts was 1.7%Ejdesgaard et al., 2015). The backward regressive model was used to make the comparison. The study was divided into 3 themes, covering events before, during and after the war. The study findings before deployment, suicide ideations were tied to drug abuse and finance. During deployment heavy workloads was an issue and after deployment the lack of athletic and recreation. The author listed some interventions that is needed to help reduce risk factors, such as, support from families, a good activity and recreation program. The author listed some limitations, such as a need for larger …show more content…
Data was collected on 874 suicide cases from, 2001-2009, from the Army Behavior Health Integrated Data Environment. Comparison data was collected from the Defense Medical Surveillance System database and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. Seventy-five percent of suicide occurs in the U.S, 20% in a combat theater and 5 % was listed as others (Black et al., 2011). Men commit suicide at a higher rate than females. Fifty-four percent of suicides were not mental health related and 41% had a mental health diagnosis. Data collected included information on social cultural, military risk factors, psychological and environmental risk factors and suicide event characteristics. Sociocultural include information on age, race/ethnicity, marital status, rank, component status and deployment history. Suicide committed by males 94.6 % as opposed to females 5.4%, age group 18-25 has the higher rate of suicide 45%, African American 69% less likely to commit suicide than Caucasian/Whites. Psychological risk factors show that 54% of suicide were not reported as having mental health diagnosis and 46% had mental health diagnosis. Event characteristics and environmental stressors shows that 38% had history of planning suicide, 21 % had communicated thought prior to committing suicide, and 19% reported as