A recent study findings have disclosed that the rate of increase in the self reported post-traumatic stress disorders among the combat-exposed military personnel since 2001 has gone up by almost three times.
Health implications of the military deployments are increasingly becoming causes of concerns the world over. According to the estimated given by several other studies more than 30% of the Vietnam war veterans were exposed to the post-traumatic stress disorders at various stages of the war and its follow ups. Similarly, almost 10% of the Gulf war veterans also reported having undergone the post-traumatic stress disorders even many years after the war was over.
Researchers conducted an analysis on almost 50,000 military personnel in San Diego and made attempts to study the effects of such military deployments who participated in the ‘Millennium Cohort Study’, a US health study of military personnel that lasted for more than 22 years.
