Table 6.
Pre- and peri-pandemic psychological distress across the deployment cycle
| Measure: Sex-sensitive T-values for Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)/Mini-Symptom Checklist (Mini-SCL) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-peri-pandemic | Deployment Phases | M | SE | 95% CI | |
| LL | UL | ||||
| Pre-pandemic | T1 | 41.75a | 1.06 | 39.66 | 43.84 |
| T4 | 42.64a | 1.12 | 40.43 | 44.86 | |
| T5 | 40.02a | 1.15 | 37.74 | 42.30 | |
| Peri-pandemic | T1 | 49.57a | 1.10 | 47.40 | 51.74 |
| T4 | 45.92a | 1.17 | 43.62 | 48.22 | |
| T5 | 45.55a | 1.20 | 43.19 | 47.92 | |
aCovariates appearing in the model: REGR factor 1, REGR factor 2
T1: two weeks before deployment, peri-pandemic: beginning of pre-deployment quarantine
T4: two weeks after returning home, peri-pandemic: end of post-deployment quarantine
T5: Pre-pandemic: six months after redeployment, peri-pandemic: two to three months post-deployment