Table 1
Deployed soldiers.
| Measure | Pre Deployment (n = 41) | During Deployment (n = 38) | Homecoming (n = 38) | ANOVA One-way repeated measure (n = 37) | Paired t-test | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | f | pb | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–3 | |
| Perceived stress | |||||||||||
| PSS14 suma | 23.93 | 7.87 | 20.26 | 7.31 | 21.82 | 8.16 | 5.22 | .01 | .005 | .049 | .136 |
| Positive | 10.20 | 3.49 | 9.87 | 3.83 | 10.45 | 4.38 | .91 | .41 | .624 | .181 | .577 |
| Negative | 13.73 | 5.02 | 10.39 | 4.41 | 11.37 | 4.84 | 9.71 | .00 | .000 | .063 | .010 |
| Biological markers | |||||||||||
| Cortisol (unit nmol/l) | 31.15 | 8.22 | – | – | 26.59 | 7.04 | .025 | ||||
| Cognitive performance | |||||||||||
| d2 Tempo | 98.05 | 2.55 | – | – | 103.76 | 2.8 | .000 | ||||
| d2E% | 105.42 | 2.64 | – | – | 103.95 | 3.18 | .197 | ||||
| Delta-R | 13.56 | 1.8 | – | – | 15 | 1.7 | .092 | ||||
| NAB | 6.6 | 0.51 | – | – | 6.92 | 0.50 | .269 | ||||
| Word list | 7.61 | 0.87 | – | – | 8.16 | 0.72 | .253 | ||||
[i] Notes: a Scalce scores range from 0 (never) to 4 (all the time) for each item, with a max score of 56 (over 14 items, 7 positive and 7 negative items). b Significance of/(bold numbers indicate statistical significance).