Table 2. Contact with mental health professionals (e.g. psychiatrists, clinical psychologists) for deployment-related mental disorders.

	Initial contacts*1	Follow-up contacts*2
ISAF	n = 576	n = 726
Balkans	n = 39	n = 85
Men	n = 568	n = 752
Women	n = 46	n = 59

^*1Initial contacts: First contact with a mental health professional for a deployment-related mental disorder;

^*2Follow-up contacts: patients who repeatedly contacted a mental health professional. ISAF, International Stabilization Force, Afghanistan; Balkans comprises deployments in KFOR: Kosovo Force, EUFOR: European Union Force