The military is off-track when dealing with mental health problems

The headline reads, “Study: Mental illness rate higher in soldiers.” The article goes on to offer alarming statistics: The rate of major depression is five times as high among soldiers as civilians; intermittent explosive disorder, which results in episodes of extreme anger, is six times as high; and post-traumatic stress disorder was nearly 15 times higher than among civilians, the study found. This would be pretty scary if true — but it isn’t. Psychiatric epidemiology is done in a way that leads to systematic bias and inflated rates of reported psychiatric disorder. And there has also been systematic carelessness in how the results are misleadingly reported by the researchers and then passed on by the media. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs