from the didn't-need-a-scientific-study dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
New research from King's College London suggests that depression and binge-drinking are more common among the female partners of UK military personnel than among comparable women outside the military community.
Researchers from the King's Centre for Military Health Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) collected data from 405 women in military families with at least one child, representing around a third of the military population.
The researchers used a screening tool for depression, rather than a diagnosis from a psychiatrist, and women reporting frequent symptoms were considered to have probable depression. Drinking behaviours were also recorded through a self-reported screening tool.
After controlling for other factors linked to poor alcohol behaviours, the researchers found military partners were twice as likely to binge-drink as women in the general population.
Overall, military partners reported consuming alcohol less frequently than women in the general population but reported binge-drinking more often. Binge-drinking was significantly higher when families were separated for more than 2 months due to deployment.
Military families experience various unique challenges, such as frequently moving location and the stress and separation caused by deployment. The researchers say binge-drinking may reflect poor coping strategies used by military partners during the long absences of serving personnel from the family home.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @10:29PM (2 children)
‘The general population’ is a useless comparison metric for social studies of subgroups. Since the general population includes a huge percentage of non drinking subgroups such as muslims, etc.
(Score: 2) by http on Wednesday September 25 2019, @03:23AM
How awful it must be for muslims to not be able to joing the milit...
Couldn't do it. You're a fucking idiot, today at least.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @08:01AM
It makes sense to compare things to the average to get relative risk. While the general population has it share of teetotaler groups, it also includes alcoholics. Therefore, it is the closest thing you can get to a baseline without having representation problems from trying to subsample groups. Sure, maybe you want to do an oversample of military wives with matched-pair counterparts while controlling for as many confounders as possible and even using within-group differentiation matches to get the best possible picture of independent variables, but this is a relatively quick and easy way to see if there's even a "there" there to warrant further investigation.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 24 2019, @11:10PM (5 children)
Civilian researchers trying to understand the military family. Lotsa luck!
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @11:53PM (4 children)
Yeah, we'll all need to cut our IQs in half before even beginning to understand all its intellectual complexity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @12:10AM
Hardy-har-har.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 25 2019, @01:36AM (2 children)
I got a brain in the top percentile of the nation and a DD-214. Try again.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 25 2019, @10:18AM (1 child)
Just don't forget to pay your power bill, lest your freezer goes out and your brain gets spoiled.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 25 2019, @12:48PM
Doing that today in fact. If all else fails I can always send The Roomie down to the brain depository.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.