Influence of training for field operation on mental status of military medical personnel

AIM: To explore the effect of field medical training on the mental health and state-trait anxiety of the military medical personnel. METHODS: Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used to evaluate the mental health status of 113 military medical personnel in the Field Medical Aid Station. Statistic methods, such as t test and correlation analysis from SPSS13.0 were used to analyze the scores. RESULTS: The total scores and average positive-scores of SCL-90 were slightly higher than ones of the norm of Chinese soldiers. The factor scores of interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and somatization were not statistically stgnificant as compared with the norm of Chinese soldiers before field training (P0.05). But the factor scores of anxiety obsessive-compulsive disorder and somatization got significantly different as compared with the norm of Chinese soldiers after field training (P0.05). The state-anxiety after training had a significant difference as compared with that before training (P0.01), but the trait-anxiety change had nos tatistical significance (P0.05). CONCLUSION: The trait-anxiety of military medical personnel has no significant changes in the field medical training, but the performances of psychological anxiety and some mental health indexes change obviously.