PREVALENCE OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS AMONG MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE ANTITERRORIST OPERATION
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https://doi.org/10.11603/2415-8798.2018.1.8456Keywords:
anxiety, depressive disorders, military people.Abstract
All participants of the antiterrorist operation are influenced by a complex of intense long-acting stressors leading to the strain of adaptive systems of the body.
The aim of the study – to investigate the incidence of anxiety and depressive disorders among military personnel who had participated in the antiterrorist operation.
Materials and Methods. An anonymous survey of 102 military personnel who had participated in the antiterrorist operation introduced in the day care center of Outpatient Clinic Department at the National Military Medical Clinical Center "The Main Military Clinical Hospital" has been done. The hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS ) has been use to identify anxiety and depressive disorders. The study group includes men, the middle age is (40.8±0.67) years. Methods of investigation are bibliographical, information-analytical and system approach.
Results and Discussion. It is established that among personnel who had participated in the antiterrorist operation revealed a high prevalence (40.8±4.5%) of anxiety-depressive disorders (anxious – (35.0±4.4) %, depressive – (24.1±3.9) % (p>0.05)) and the absence of a statistically significant difference (p>0.05) with respect to the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders between groups with arterial hypertension (AH ) and without AH, with AH stage I and AH stage II.
Conclusions. The results of the research require the introduction of a set of measures to prevent, diagnose and correct anxious and depressive disorders among military who had participated in the antiterrorist operation.
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