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The Military is a unique organization with its own unique group culture and features. Soldiers no matter he’s voluntary service or compulsory service need to undergo many training so as to strengthen their adaptability with high psychological qualities. However, due to environmental pressures, physical/mental disabilities, and maladaptation, some soldiers experienced physical discomfort, depression, anxiety, delusions, hallucinations, and even suicide during their service. As a result, they cannot continue their military service and must be admitted to hospital to relieve or treat symptoms. Their gender, type of service, military rank, service environment, education, and diagnostic results are the key directions for this study.
This study utilizes the data of soldiers of the Military Hospital who were hospitalized for mental illness from 2012 to 2015. By using both chart review and descriptive analysis methods, we find that severe depression (85.9%) was the highest in the diagnosis of the disease. And the soldiers of compulsory service with high school education level or below demonstrated the highest proportion (59.99%) in severe depression. It was also found that the number of patients from combat units in the sample was 3107 (88.4%). The voluntary officers and soldiers received the “Psychotic Screening” before they were trained, and they have been ruled out the possibility of having a history of mental illness.
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