Study Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicide Risk In Deployed Military Personnel

Study Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicide Risk In Deployed Military Personnel

JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights

A study through Craig J. Bryan, Psy.D., A.B.P.P., of the National Center conducive to Veterans Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, suggests that suicide put to hazard is higher among military personnel through more lifetime traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).

Patients included 161 warlike personnel referred for evaluation and handling of suspected head injury at a soldiery hospital's TBI clinic in Iraq. Patients completed standardized self-reputation measures of depression, posttraumatic stress disorganize, suicidal thoughts and behaviors; as well being of the cls who a clinical interview and physical investigation.

Depression, PTSD and TBI symptom strictness significantly increased with the number of TBIs. There also was an increased incidence of lifetime suicidal thoughts or behaviors (t any TBIs, 0 percent; single TBI, 6.9 percent, and multiple TBIs 21.7 percent) and suicidal ideation not beyond the past year.

"Results suggest that multiple TBIs, which are common among military personnel, may contribute to increased risk for suicide," the study concludes.