One third US troops back from Iraq need mental help: study
scmp - Wednesday, March 1, 2006
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Washington
Updated at 12.42pm:
One third of US troops returning from Iraq have needed at least one mental health consultation and one in five have been diagnosed with combat-induced psychological problems, a US study reported on Tuesday.
The rate of mental trauma in Iraq veterans compares with 11.3 per cent for soldiers and marines returning from Afghanistan and 8.5 per cent for those deployed in other trouble spots, according to research conducted by Charles Hoge, a physician at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The study is published in the March 1 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers interviewed 303,905 troops, including 222,620 who had returned from Iraq; 16,318 from Afghanistan and 64,967 from other deployment zones, such as Kosovo and Bosnia.
The troops were interviewed one year after their return to the United States.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Washington
Updated at 12.42pm:
One third of US troops returning from Iraq have needed at least one mental health consultation and one in five have been diagnosed with combat-induced psychological problems, a US study reported on Tuesday.
The rate of mental trauma in Iraq veterans compares with 11.3 per cent for soldiers and marines returning from Afghanistan and 8.5 per cent for those deployed in other trouble spots, according to research conducted by Charles Hoge, a physician at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The study is published in the March 1 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers interviewed 303,905 troops, including 222,620 who had returned from Iraq; 16,318 from Afghanistan and 64,967 from other deployment zones, such as Kosovo and Bosnia.
The troops were interviewed one year after their return to the United States.
