Killing in war linked with suicidal thoughts, duh

This shocker came from college research?

“We want clinicians and suicide prevention coordinators to be aware that in analyzing a veteran’s risk of suicide, killing in combat is an additional factor that they may or may not be aware of.” Shira Maguen, a clinical psychologist at SFVAMC and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF.

Mind boggling that they understand so little after so long. Do they ever read research already done? One other cause of a survivor wanting to die is guilt when they believe they should have died instead. Is this the next thing they'll feel the need to put out a press release over?

Killing in war linked with suicidal thoughts among Vietnam veterans
University of California at San Francisco
April 21, 2012

The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

The scientists found that veterans with more experiences involving killing were twice as likely to have reported suicidal thoughts as veterans who had fewer or no experiences.

To evaluate the experience of killing, the authors created four variables – killing enemy combatants, killing prisoners, killing civilians in general and killing or injuring women, children or the elderly. For each veteran, they combined those variables into a single composite measure. The higher the composite score, the greater the likelihood that a veteran had thought about suicide.
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