Mental Health Diagnosis and Occupational Functioning in National Guard/Reserve Veterans Returning From Iraq

Two hundred sixty-two Army National Guard Service members participated in a diagnostic interview and survey within one year of return from deployment to Iraq; they completed a survey one year later to examine the role of mental health diagnosis on occupational functioning. Army National Guard Service members with psychiatric diagnosis (posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sub-threshold PTSD, major depression, or alcohol problems) are likely to struggle more with occupational functioning than service members without these diagnoses. However, thee diagnoses did not affect employment status.