The mental health of the UK Armed Forces: where facts meet fiction

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Table 1 Association between probable mental disorders and number of deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan, for currently serving regular Army personnel (N=4,098)

	1 deployment (N=1,767)	2 deployments (N=1,109)	OR (95% CI); p value	Adjusted OR (95% CI); p value	3 or more deployments (N=411)	OR (95% CI); p value	Adjusted OR (95% CI); p value
Probable PTSD	66 (4.1%)	37 (3.4%)	0.83 (0.51–1.36); p=0.47	0.96 (0.58–1.57); p=0.86	11 (2.5%)	0.61 (0.29–1.26); p=0.18	0.72 (0.34–1.50); p=0.38
Common mental disorders	355 (21.2%)	199 (18.3%)	0.83 (0.66–1.05); p=0.12	0.90 (0.71–1.14); p=0.39	67 (16.8%)	0.75 (0.54–1.05); p=0.091	0.80 (0.57–1.13); p=0.20