调查军人配偶自杀的情况
Rebekah Cole1,2, Rebecca G Cowan3, Elizabeth Pearce1
1Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Military medicine
|November 27, 2024
概括
军人配偶认为自杀的威胁很高,并面临进入心理健康护理的障碍,担心失去身份和控制. 增加支持和减少耻辱是预防这一群体自杀的关键.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 军人配偶自杀率正在上升,但对导致因素和心理健康准入的定量研究是有限的.
- 以前的定性研究表明,军人配偶自杀风险增加的原因.
- 这项研究解决了对军人配偶心理健康和自杀观念的定量数据的需求.
研究的目的:
- 评估军方配偶对自己社区中自杀率和风险因素的看法.
- 调查军方配偶获得心理健康护理的能力和感知到的障碍.
- 探索不同军人配偶子组之间的自杀观念的差异.
主要方法:
- 通过社交媒体招募的141名军人配偶进行了12项利克特调查.
- 该调查评估了对自杀威胁,个人心理健康,进入障碍,耻辱感,领导观点和自杀原因的看法.
- 分析了数据,以确定各种人口亚组 (例如,军官与士兵) 的看法.
主要成果:
- 确定的主要威胁包括失去控制 (27.7%),失去身份 (25.5%) 和难以获得心理健康服务 (19.1%).
- 超过28%的参与者对自己的心理健康表达了中度至极度的担忧.
- 很大一部分人认为自杀是中度到极度普遍的,在服务分支,军官/士兵地位或配偶任期之间没有发现显著差异.
结论:
- 军人配偶报告说,他们对自杀威胁,个人心理健康问题以及围绕心理健康护理获得的耻辱感的意识提高了.
- 参与者对帮助他人或获取资源表示适度的信心,但强调了重大挑战和感知到的耻辱感.
- 加强关注和宣传对于改善军事配偶的心理健康支持和自杀预防至关重要.
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