Table 2.
Lifetime Prevalence of Suicidal Behaviors and Mental Disorders in the Consolidated AAS1
| Prevalence | Pre-enlistment proportion |
Pre-enlistment proportion |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men1 | Women | Men | Women | |||||||
| % | SE | % | SE | % | SE | ndenominator | % | SE | ndenominator | |
| I. Suicidal Behaviors2 | ||||||||||
| Lifetime ideation among total sample | 12.7 | 0.4 | 20.1 | 0.9 | 62.1 | 1.3 | (3,344) | 70.7 | 2.6 | (575) |
| Lifetime attempt among total sample | 2.5 | 0.2 | 5.1 | 0.5 | 57.3 | 3.6 | (635) | 64.3 | 6.1 | (170) |
| Lifetime plan among ideators | 41.8 | 1.6 | 46.1 | 3.2 | 57.0 | 2.0 | (1,194) | 69.3 | 3.9 | (263) |
| Lifetime attempt among ideators with a plan | 33.9 | 1.9 | 38.3 | 4.4 | 58.1 | 4.2 | (416) | 65.7 | 7.8 | (119) |
| Lifetime attempt among ideators without a plan | 9.2 | 0.9 | 14.8 | 2.4 | 55.1 | 5.7 | (219) | 61.4 | 10.6 | (51) |
| Mental disorders | ||||||||||
| II. Internalizing Disorders | ||||||||||
| Major depressive episode (SC) | 22.4 | 0.5 | 34.9 | 1.2 | 50.3 | 1.4 | (5306) | 54.1 | 2.8 | (963) |
| Generalized anxiety disorder (SC) | 28.8 | 0.6 | 40.4 | 1.5 | 39.8 | 1.5 | (6431) | 45.4 | 2.3 | (1107) |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder (SC) | 31.7 | 0.6 | 41.6 | 1.3 | 31.1 | 2.0 | (7258) | 42.4 | 2.0 | (1192) |
| Bipolar disorder3 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 45.7 | 2.3 | (1129) | 39.7 | 6.5 | (121) |
| Panic disorder | 4.3 | 0.3 | 6.8 | 0.5 | 34.1 | 2.3 | (1170) | 50.8 | 4.3 | (203) |
| III. Externalizing Disorders | ||||||||||
| Intermittent explosive disorder | 19.8 | 0.4 | 14.8 | 1.0 | 78.7 | 1.3 | (5456) | 71.6 | 3.1 | (479) |
| Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder | 5.6 | 0.3 | 5.8 | 0.5 | 49.6 | 2.6 | (1657) | 49.5 | 4.7 | (185) |
| Substance use disorders (SC) | 14.4 | 0.5 | 11.0 | 0.9 | 44.3 | 1.8 | (4503) | 43.6 | 3.8 | (351) |
n=26,927.men; n=3,055 women. The disorders assessed with screening questions are designated by “(SC),” while the other disorders were assessed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (Kessler & Üstün, 2004). See the text for more detail.
The pre- and post-enlistment proportions shown here differ slightly from those presented in a prior paper using these data (Millner et al., in press) because age of enlistment was amended in this paper to reflect administrative data when the age at survey did not coincide with the birth date in Army records. The resulting changes are minimal as they involved only: n=14 attempts (1.7% of total attempts), n=84 ideators (2.1% of total ideators), n=38 planners (2.6% of total planners), n=11 planned attempts (2.1% of total planned attempts), n=3 unplanned attempts (1.1% of total unplanned attempts).
The assessment of bipolar disorder included bipolar disorder I, II, and sub-threshold BPD. See the text for more detail.