The odds -- according to a study in the September issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report -- of servicewomen with a diagnosis of postpartum depression (PPD) also being diagnosed with suicidality, compared to servicewomen without a PPD diagnosis. Among military dependent spouses with a PPD diagnosis, the odds are 14.5, compared to spouses without PPD.
The rates, respectively, of sexual harassment and sexual assault reported by 13,000+ female service members exposed to combat during deployment to Afghanistan and/or Iraq, according to an article published last summer in the journal Women's Health Issues -- Combat Deployment Is Associated with Sexual Harassment or Sexual Assault in a Large, Female Military Cohort.
The ratio by which military spouses and children now outnumber service members, according to a special issue of The Future of Children, a journal published jointly by The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
10.7
12.8
12.4
"The crude rate of suicide per 100,000 person years," among 150,000 active duty personnel and Veterans who, respectively, did not deploy to OEF/OIF, who deployed without combat, and who experienced combat, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association -- Risk factors associated with suicide in current and former US military personnel.
The percentages of participants in 2013 Wounded Warrior Project Survey (PDF), who reported suffering from PTSD, anxiety and depression, respectively.