{"id":36983,"date":"2013-08-06T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36983"},"modified":"2013-08-06T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:05:39","slug":"deployments-dont-cause-suicides-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36983","title":{"rendered":"Deployments don&#8217;t cause suicides says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/study-deployments-not-reason-for-increase-in-military-suicides-1.234127\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and conducted by Cynthia A. LeardMann, M.P.H., of the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA has come to the conclusion that we&#8217;ve all suspected; military suicides are virtually unrelated to deployments;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Between 2001 and 2008, there were 83 suicides \u2014 12.8 percent \u2014 among a total of 646 deaths of those enrolled in the Millennium Cohort Study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn models adjusted for age and sex, factors significantly associated with increased risk of suicide included male sex, depression, manic-depressive disorder, heavy or binge drinking, and alcohol-related problems,\u201d the study said. \u201cThe authors found that none of the deployment-related factors (combat experience, cumulative days deployed, or number of deployments) were associated with increased suicide risk in any of the models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study noted that other studies have shown a marked increase in the incidence of mental health disorder diagnoses among active-duty servicemembers since 2005, paralleling the suicide incidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis suggests that the increased rate of suicide in the military may largely be a product of an increased prevalence of mental disorders in this population \u2026,\u201d the study said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I think you and I have been telling the public this for years. It&#8217;s the culture not the military that is causing this increase in suicides. Now, can we get down to the business of dealing with it instead of propagating stereotypes that only serve to worsen the problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association &hellip; <a title=\"Deployments don&#8217;t cause suicides says study\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36983\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deployments don&#8217;t cause suicides says study<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}