The pattern of psychopathology associated with malingering tendencies at basic psychiatric screening of the Swiss Armed Forces
| Autor: | Maj Stefan Vetter, Swiss Armed Forces, William T. Gallo, Wulf Rossler, Maj Gen Gianpiero Lupi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Malingering Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Symptom Checklist 90 Military medicine medicine Humans Mass Screening Psychiatry Mass screening media_common Military recruitment Psychopathology Addiction Mental Disorders Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine medicine.disease Behavior Addictive Military Personnel Case-Control Studies Female Addictive behavior Psychology Switzerland |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 174(2) |
| ISSN: | 0026-4075 |
| Popis: | This study uses military recruitment data, collected in 2003 from Swiss Armed Forces conscripts, to observe the pattern of psychopathology and addictive behavior for conscripts identified as those with malingering tendencies. To that end, we first applied Derogatis’ criterion for the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised to identify recruits with malingering tendencies. We then used bivariate methods (t test and c2 tests) to compare self-reported psychopathology and addictive behavior of such recruits to that of recruits not identified as potential malingerers. We find that recruits with malingering tendencies have significantly higher mean scores in all psychopathological symptom dimensions and addictive behaviors than recruits without malingering tendencies. The results suggest that the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised is well suited as a screening for malingerers in nonpatients and conscripts. |
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