Illness Behavior and Transitional States: A Study of Outpatient Rates and Symptom Presentation in Relation to Troop Deployment during Peacetime. The Health Consequences of Deployment. Part 1 Data Gathering
Abstract
This technical report describes the data gathering system developed in support of a study of short-term stress effects, 'Illness Behavior and Transition States: A Study of Outpatient Rates and Symptom Presentation During Peacetime.' The methodology is described and serves as background for other reports in this series. The body of the report considers the purposes of the system, the study population, the health care facilities, the coding of the visits to those facilities, the coding of the military training and activities, and the computerized data linkage system which was developed to deal with the data. This study is a unique linkage of medical visits, personnel records and military activities of the soldier's unit. The research protocol is reproduced as Appendix A, areas of future reports are listed in Appendix B, major summary medical codes in Appendix C, and military training and activity codes in Appendix D. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 27, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA124509
Entities
People
- Joseph M. Rothberg
- Linda K. Jellen
- Richard J. Oldakowski
Organizations
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research