Table 1.
Operation LASER quantitative measure overview.
| Assessment | Domain | Items, n | Baseline | Follow-up | |
| Sociodemographic and military characteristics | Sociodemographics | 7 | ✓ | ✓ (reduced) | |
| Deployment characteristicsa | Deployment characteristics | 5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Predeployment training satisfactiona | Training | 16 | ✓ | —b | |
| Prior CAFc mental health or resilience traininga | Training | 8 | ✓ | — | |
| Personal protective equipment usea | Training | 17 | ✓ | — | |
| Postdeployment satisfactiona | — | 5 | ✓ | — | |
| C-PIQd | COVID-19 impact | 16 | ✓ | — | |
| Stressful experiences | |||||
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Deployment stressorsa | Stressful experiences | 9 | ✓ | ✓ (reduced) |
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MMD-LASERa,e | Moral distress | 18 | ✓ | ✓ (expanded for T2 and T3) |
| Mental health | |||||
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PHQ-9f | Depression symptoms | 9 | ✓ | ✓ |
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GAD-7g | Anxiety symptoms | 7 | ✓ | ✓ |
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PCL-5h | PTSDi symptoms | 21 | ✓ | ✓ |
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K-10j | General psychological distress | 10 | ✓ | ✓ |
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MIOSk | Moral injury expression | 40 | ✓ | ✓ (reduced to 14 items) |
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Positive moral emotion outcomesa | Positive moral emotions | 7 | ✓ | ✓ |
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Mental health service use | Mental health service use | 3 | — | ✓ |
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Barriers to mental health service use | Barriers to mental health service use | 23 | — | ✓ (expanded) |
| Coping and social support | |||||
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COPEl Inventory (brief version) | Coping styles | 12 | ✓ | ✓ |
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Social support sourcesa | — | 7 | ✓ | ✓ |
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Meaning scalem | Meaningfulness of work | 3 | ✓ | — |
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Moralem | Motivation and enthusiasm | 6 | ✓ | — |
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Relatednessm | Peer relatedness | 7 | ✓ | — |
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Trust in teamsm | Trust | 9 | ✓ | — |
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Trust in leadershipm | Trust | 9 | ✓ | — |
aScale or items created specifically for Operation LASER.
bNot collected.
cCAF: Canadian Armed Forces.
dC-PIQ: Complementary and Integrative Research Pandemic Impact Questionnaire.
eMMD-LASER: Measure of Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals adapted to Operation LASER.
fPHQ-9: Patient Health Questionnaire–9.
gGAD-7: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale.
hPCL-5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.
iPTSD: posttraumatic stress disorder.
jK-10: Kessler Psychological Distress Scale.
kMIOS: Moral Injury Outcome Scale.
lCOPE: Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced.
mSelf-report assessment is a component of the Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis (DGMPRA) Human Dimensions of Operations (HDO) data collection battery. Assessments were validated by the DGMPRA and designed specifically for administration to CAF personnel in HDO research.