TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Domestic violence and deployment in US Army soldiers
JO  - Journal of nervous and mental disease
A1  - McCarroll, James E.
A1  - Ursano, R. J.
A1  - Newby, J. H.
A1  - Liu, Xijuan
A1  - Fullerton, C. S.
A1  - Norwood, A. E.
A1  - Osuch, Elizabeth A.
SP  - 3
EP  - 9
VL  - 191
IS  - 1
N2  - Although military deployment has been suggested as a possible cause of increases in domestic violence, little is known about it. The purpose of this study was to determine if deployment of 6 months to Bosnia predicted early postdeployment domestic violence. Active duty recently deployed (N = 313) and nondeployed (N = 712) male soldiers volunteered to take an anonymous questionnaire. Deployment was not a significant predictor of postdeployment domestic violence. However, younger soldiers, those with predeployment domestic violence, nonwhite race, and off-post residence also were more likely to report postdeployment domestic violence. The predicted probability of postdeployment domestic violence for a deployed 20-year-old, nonwhite soldier with a history of predeployment domestic violence and who lives on-post was.20. For the soldier without a history of predeployment domestic violence, it was.05. Prevention and intervention programs for postdeployment domestic violence shortly after return should target age and persons with a domestic violence history rather than deployment per se.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.NMD.0000044440.57826.CB
ID  - ref1
ER  -