Table 1. Variable Definitions
(number of items) |
| Biodemographic
variables |
| Time in service |
Total years member had toward retirement at the time
of deployment (1) |
| Corps/Specialty |
Corps for officers, Military Occupational Specialty for enlisted
(1) |
| Age |
Age at last birthday (1) |
| Sex |
Gender, male or female
(1) |
| Military status |
Active, Reserve Component,
Federal Civil Service, Civilian (1) |
| Service |
Branch of the military
(1) |
| Rank |
Military rank E-1 through
O-10 (1) |
Comfort in role
|
How well prepared they felt
in their deployed role and with their military skills (2) |
| Family disruption |
Difficulty of making arrangements
for care for children and/or adult dependents at home and whether
those dependents needed to be relocated to get care. (2) |
| Number of dependents |
Number of children and/or
adult dependents at home (2) |
| Financial hardship |
Magnitude of decrease in annual
income or entitlements due to activation and deployment and unreimbursable
expenses (5) |
| Willingness to serve |
Attitude of service member
regarding being assigned to duty in Southwest Asia (1) |
| Education
and Training Variables |
| Education level |
Highest civilian and military
education (2) |
| Trauma care training |
Amount of specialty training
in trauma care such as the Combat Casualty Care Course (C4), Advanced
Trauma Life Support (ATLS), or Emergency Medical Technician training,
intensive care or battlefield medicine training (5) |
| Experience
variables |
| Experience |
Experience in career field |
| Field training |
Participation in field
exercises as part of a field hospital or as a combat medic on a
range from no experience to greater than 20 days (1) |
| Previous Deployments |
Deployment for named operations
such as Operation Just Cause, Lebanon, Urgent Fury, Vietnam (2) |
| This deployment
experience |
| Preparation |
Service
member's assessment of their preparedness in the areas of clothing
and equipment, family affairs, financial affairs, and military training
(4) |
| Problems becoming operational |
The problems the unit experienced
becoming operational related to transportation delays, missing or
inoperable equipment, training and availability of personnel, leadership
and mission orders (8) |
| Symptom Distress |
Whether the service member
experienced an increase in their physical complaints or anxiety
during deployment (2) |
| Satisfaction with deployment job |
On a continuum, whether
the service member was enthusiastic about their job, liked their
job better than the average worker, or were satisfied with their
job while deployed (3) |