Military, Demographic, and Psychosocial Predictors of Military Retention in Enlisted Army Soldiers 12 Months After Deployment to Iraq

Autor:	Jennifer J. Vasterling, Susan P. Proctor, Mihaela Aslan, John Concato, Brian P. Marx, Christopher B. Harte, John Ko, Matthew Jakupcak
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Adult Employment Male Time Factors Active duty Military service Poison control Personnel Management Military medicine Interviews as Topic Young Adult Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health Humans Medicine Prospective Studies Iraq War 2003-2011 Marital Status business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine United States Military personnel Military Personnel Marital status Female business Psychosocial Military deployment Demography
Zdroj:	Military Medicine. 180:524-532
ISSN:	1930-613X 0026-4075
DOI:	10.7205/milmed-d-14-00468
Popis:	To examine military, demographic, and psychosocial predictors of military retention following operational deployment.Military status 12 months following return from Iraq deployment was assessed via service records in 740 regular active duty Army Soldiers. Potential predictors of military retention were derived from prospectively administered in-person interviews and questionnaires conducted within 3 months following return from Iraq.At 12 months following return from deployment, 18.1% (n = 134) of the sample had separated from military service. Cox proportional hazards analyses, adjusting for demographic, military, and psychosocial predictors, identified several factors that were independently associated with military attrition: less than (vs. equal to or more than) 6 years military experience (hazards ratio [HR], 3.98; 95% CI, 2.12-7.45); unmarried (vs. married) status (HR, 1.51; 95% CI, 1.06-2.16); and lower (vs. higher) levels of self-reported unit support during deployment (HR, 2.22; 95% CI, 1.42-3.47).Service members early in their career may be especially prone to military attrition. With regard to military retention, our findings suggest that it may be particularly important to develop initiatives that target organizational cohesion and support.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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