Citation

Reger MA, Smolenski DJ, Skopp NA, Metzger-Abamukong MJ, Kang HK, Bullman TA, Gahm GA. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2016; 47(2): 242-247.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12282

PMID

27492873

Abstract

The association between suicide and combat injuries sustained during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was examined. A retrospective population-based cohort design was conducted using official military records to identify combat injuries (October 7, 2001, to December 31, 2007). Those who were injured during combat had higher crude suicide rates than those who deployed and were not injured (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.50; confidence interval [CI] = 1.06, 2.12), or never deployed (IRR = 1.46; CI = 1.04, 2.06). After adjusting for demographics, these findings were no longer statistically significant. Although our data did not support an elevated suicide risk among wounded service members, additional research is needed to examine the impact of injury severity.

Published 2016. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

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