Table 1 |
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Demographic Characteristics in Three Groups of Marines Corps Personnel, 2001-2007 |
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Characteristic |
Non-war deployed |
War deployed |
Excluded from study sample† |
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N (%) n = 13 944 |
N (%) n = 77 881 |
N (%) n = 72 939 |
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Accession age |
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<19 years |
6795 (48.7) |
37 698 (48.4) |
32 719 (44.9)** |
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≥19 years |
7149 (51.3) |
40 183 (51.6) |
40 219 (55.1)** |
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Sex |
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Male |
12 296 (88.2) |
74 962 (96.3)** |
65 780 (90.2)** |
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Female |
1648 (11.8) |
2919 (3.7)** |
7159 (9.8)** |
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Race/ethnicity |
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Caucasian |
9050 (64.9) |
55 942 (71.8)** |
54 191 (74.3)** |
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African American |
1653 (11.9) |
5504 (7.1)** |
5554 (7.6)** |
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Hispanic |
2171 (15.6) |
11 150 (14.3)** |
7524 (10.3)** |
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Other/mixed/missing |
1070 (7.7) |
5285 (6.8)** |
5670 (7.8) |
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AFQT score |
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Low (0-50) |
4047 (29.0) |
26 409 (33.9)** |
21 276 (29.2)** |
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Medium (51-70) |
5006 (35.9) |
26 860 (34.5)** |
26 291 (36.0)** |
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High (71-99) |
4891 (35.1) |
24 612 (31.6)** |
24 992 (34.3)** |
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AFQT, Armed Forces Qualification Test. †Individuals who served <6 months of service, were an officer or a warrant officer, did not deploy before the end of the study period, changed military branches during the study time frame (such as from the Marines to the Army), or received hazardous duty pay but did not deploy to Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kuwait, were not eligible for the study. *Statistically different from the non-war-deployed reference group (p < 0.05). **Statistically different from the non-war-deployed reference group (p < 0.01). |
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Highfill-McRoy et al. BMC Psychiatry 2010 10:88 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-10-88 |
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