Injuries and Illnesses of Vietnam War POWs Revisited: IV. Air Force Risk Factors

Abstract

Operation Homecoming (O/H), the negotiated release of 566 US Servicemen held as prisoners of war (POWs) in Vietnam for as long as nine years, began in February 1973. During the months that followed, enemy forces released 138 Navy, 26 Marine Corps, 77 Army, and 325 Air Force Repatriated POWs (RPWs). The purpose of this present study is to look, for the first time ever, at the Air Force IMEF diagnoses and explore the relationship between the number of diagnosis at repatriation and the various risk factors. We still hypothesized that these risk factors would predict both the grand total of IMEF diagnoses across categories and the presence of any diagnoses within specific categories. We also hypothesize that the distribution of the top 10 Navy diagnoses reported by Berg and Richlin (1977a) will be the same for the Air Force repatriates and that an average of 12 diagnoses would be observed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2017
Accession Number
AD1031529

Entities

People

  • Fred A Wells
  • Jeffrey L. Moore
  • John P. Albano
  • Saima S. Raza

Organizations

  • Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Air Force
  • Body Weight
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Eye Diseases
  • Information Science
  • Linear Regression Analysis
  • Marine Corps
  • Medical Personnel
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Regression Analysis
  • Risk Factors
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Therapy

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