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Marriage and divorce after military deployment to Afghanistan: A matched cohort study from Sweden.


ABSTRACT: AIM:To investigate the probability of marriage and divorce among Swedish military veterans deployed to Afghanistan relative to non-deployed matched comparators. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING:Matched cohort study in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS:Military veterans were identified through Swedish military personnel registers regarding foreign deployments, and comparators from the Military Service Conscription Register (1969-2013). Of 1,882,411 eligible conscripts, 7041 had served in Afghanistan at some point in time between 2002 and 2013. To each military veteran, up to 5 non-deployed comparators who underwent conscription were matched by age, sex, psychological assessment, cognitive ability, psychiatric history and social characteristics. After matching there were 4896 (82%) unmarried and 1069 (18%) married deployed military veterans. The main outcome was marriage or divorce after deployment to Afghanistan. Data on marital status were retrieved from Statistics Sweden until December 31, 2014. RESULTS:During a median follow-up of 4.1 years after deployment of married individuals, 124 divorces were observed among deployed military veterans and 399 in the matched non-deployed comparator cohort (277 vs. 178 per 10,000 person-years; adjusted hazard ratio 1.61, 95%CI 1.31-1.97). During a median follow-up of 4.7 years after deployment in the unmarried cohort, 827 new marriages were observed among deployed military veterans and 4363 in the matched non-deployed comparators cohort (399 vs. 444 per 10,000 person-years; adjusted hazard ratio 0.89, 95%CI 0.83-0.96). CONCLUSION:Military veterans were more likely to divorce and less likely to marry after deployment compared with matched non-deployed comparators.

SUBMITTER: Pethrus CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358058 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Marriage and divorce after military deployment to Afghanistan: A matched cohort study from Sweden.

Pethrus Carl-Martin CM   Reutfors Johan J   Johansson Kari K   Neovius Kristian K   Söderling Jonas J   Neovius Martin M   Bruze Gustaf G  

PloS one 20190201 2


<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate the probability of marriage and divorce among Swedish military veterans deployed to Afghanistan relative to non-deployed matched comparators.<h4>Study design and setting</h4>Matched cohort study in Sweden.<h4>Participants</h4>Military veterans were identified through Swedish military personnel registers regarding foreign deployments, and comparators from the Military Service Conscription Register (1969-2013). Of 1,882,411 eligible conscripts, 7041 had served in Afghani  ...[more]

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