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A total of 115 military personnel with verified stress-associated disorders were examined: post-traumatic stress disorder (30.4 %), adjustment disorders (14.8 %), panic disorder (15.7 %), generalized anxiety disorder (18.3 %), and depressive episode (21.7 %).
Іt was established that the leading psychopathological pattern of stress-associated disorders in military personnel is a pronounced comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders across all nosological groups. A high suicidal risk was identified in the studied cohort: suicide attempts were verified in 31.3 % of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicidal decisions and intentions in 42.6 % of patients with depressive episode. The most unfavorable suicidological profile was found in post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive episode, where a high level of suicidal risk is combined with a low level of death self-awareness as an anti-suicidal barrier (72.2 % and 68.7 %, respectively). Prognostic factors of suicidal risk have been systematized, which may serve as a basis for the development of differentiated screening protocols in the psychiatric care system for military personnel in conditions of armed conflict.
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The Scientific and Practical Journal of Medicine
«P. V. Voloshyn
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