TY - JOUR
T1 - Documented suicides within the British army during the crimean war 1854-1856
AU - Smith, Jeffrey Allen
AU - Masuhara, Kristi L.
AU - Christopher Frueh, B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We have little understanding of the increased active duty military suicide rates found in the United States, and little understanding of what is historically normative for combatants. Therefore, we examined historical records on suicides among the British Army during the Crimean War for the years 1854-1856. There were 18 documented suicides in the British Army during this period. Calculating an accurate annual suicide rate per 100,000 is impossible because it is unclear how many of the 111,313 military personnel were in country for each of the 2 years of the war. However, the range is conservatively estimated between 8 and 16 per 100,000, with the likely answer somewhere near the middle. This suggests the possibility that increasing suicide rates among active duty military may be a modem U.S. phenomenon.
AB - We have little understanding of the increased active duty military suicide rates found in the United States, and little understanding of what is historically normative for combatants. Therefore, we examined historical records on suicides among the British Army during the Crimean War for the years 1854-1856. There were 18 documented suicides in the British Army during this period. Calculating an accurate annual suicide rate per 100,000 is impossible because it is unclear how many of the 111,313 military personnel were in country for each of the 2 years of the war. However, the range is conservatively estimated between 8 and 16 per 100,000, with the likely answer somewhere near the middle. This suggests the possibility that increasing suicide rates among active duty military may be a modem U.S. phenomenon.
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U2 - 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00547
DO - 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00547
M3 - Article
C2 - 25003856
AN - SCOPUS:84928573039
SN - 0026-4075
VL - 179
SP - 721
EP - 723
JO - Military medicine
JF - Military medicine
IS - 7
ER -