Occupational rehabilitation of Israel Defense Forces veterans with PTSD: A 5‐year follow‐up

Author:

Segev Dan12,Schiff Miriam2ORCID,Shelef Leah3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Disabled IDF Veterans Rehabilitation Department Ministry of Defense Petah Tikva Israel

2. School of Social Work and Social Welfare Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel

3. School of Social Work Sapir Academic College D. N. Hof Ashkelon Israel

Abstract

The MOD Rehabilitation Department (RD) offers three types of rehabilitation tracks (RTs): (a) education, (b) work placement, (c) economic independence. This study aimed to examine which of the offered RTs predicted a better integration into the workforce. This is an observational, prospective, case‐controlled study. Data were collected from administrative files. The data pertained to soldiers injured in military service, under RD care and recognised as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients between 2001 and 2006. As rehabilitation takes 5–6 years, we examined two points in time: 2015 and 5 years later, in 2020. The studied population comprised 462 male military veterans injured during military service and diagnosed with PTSD (mean age at the time of injury was 24.60 [SD 5.70]; median = 22). Of the participants, 87.9% (n = 406) also sustained physical injury, and 12.1% were not injured physically (n = 56; 12.1%). A regression analysis indicated that the educational RT (OR = 19.509; p = .001) predicted integration into the workforce. The whole model explained 49.0% of the variance. Of the three RT types examined, education is the most important. The more years of study, the better the ability to integrate into the workforce.

Publisher

Wiley

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