Table 1.

Reasons for reporting, underreporting, and overreporting injuries ^a

Reasons for Accurate Reporting	Reasons for Underreporting	Reasons for Overreporting
Documentation in medical record	Fear that an injury may affect future career opportunities	Seeking documentation
Seeking referral to rehabilitation/subspecialty care provider	Desire to avoid negative perceptions associated with injuries	Seeking prescription for pain relief
Seeking medication for pain relief	Avoiding a profile	Concern about ability to perform job-specific duties
Concern about symptoms	Negative experience with medical providers	Concern about upcoming physical fitness test/training/deployment
Concern that upcoming training/APFT/deployment may exacerbate symptoms	Inconvenience associated with seeing a medical provider	Seeking a profile
Injury affected job performance		Seeking medical discharge

APFT, Army physical fitness test.

^aBased on how participants responded to injury-reporting questions they were asked to rank order the reasons for accurate, under or over reporting with 1 indicating most important.