Table 4.
Post-deployment mental health registry trauma characteristics stratified by sex and probable trauma associated sleep disorder prevalence
| Sex | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | |||||
| Probable Trauma Associated Sleep Disorder | Probable Trauma Associated Sleep Disorder | |||||
| Yes (N = 99) |
No (N = 724) |
Total (N = 823) |
Yes (N = 340) |
No (N = 2455) |
Total (N = 2795) |
|
| Traumatic event that causes the most distress, n(%) | ||||||
| Combat or warfare | 41 (41.4%) | 115 (15.9%) | 156 (19.0%) | 234 (68.8%) | 952 (39.5%) | 1186 (42.5%) |
| Illness | 11 (11.1%) | 260 (35.9%) | 271 (32.9%) | 35 (10.3%) | 695 (28.8%) | 730 (26.1%) |
| Accident | 5 (5.1%) | 56 (7.7%) | 61 (7.4%) | 7 (2.1%) | 248 (10.3%) | 255 (9.1%) |
| Some “other” traumatic event | 4 (4.0%) | 46 (6.4%) | 50 (6.1%) | 17 (5.0%) | 165 (6.8%) | 182 (6.5%) |
| Attack | 10 (10.1%) | 71 (9.8%) | 81 (9.8%) | 18 (5.3%) | 126 (5.2%) | 144 (5.2%) |
| Childhood violence | 1 (1.0%) | 39 (5.4%) | 40 (4.9%) | 4 (1.2%) | 116 (4.8%) | 120 (4.3%) |
| Unwanted sexual contact: before adulthood | 7 (7.1%) | 67 (9.3%) | 74 (9.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 41 (1.7%) | 41 (1.5%) |
| A traumatic event you cannot talk about | 14 (14.1%) | 20 (2.8%) | 34 (4.1%) | 21 (6.2%) | 44 (1.8%) | 65 (2.3%) |
| None of these events happened to me | 0 (0.0%) | 11 (1.5%) | 11 (1.3%) | 1 (0.3%) | 56 (2.3%) | 57 (2%) |
| Unwanted sexual contact: as an adult | 6 (6.1%) | 39 (5.4%) | 45 (5.5%) | 3 (0.9%) | 9 (0.4%) | 12 (0.4%) |
| Missing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |