By the Numbers: 8 March 2021
More than 280,000
The number of active duty Service members who "sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) between 2000 and 2019 (Q3)," according to a recent study in the journal Military Medicine -- Burden of Behavioral Health Comorbidities on Outpatient Health Care Utilization by Active Duty Service Members With a First Documented mTBI.
Behavioral health comorbidities affect approximately one-third of ADSMs following a first mTBI, and approximately 17% of previously healthy active duty men and women will be diagnosed with a new BH condition in the year following a first mTBI. Post-mTBI outpatient health care utilization is highly dependent on the presence or absence of BH condition and is markedly higher is ADSMs with a BH diagnosis in the year after a first documented mTBI.
More than 280,000
The number of active duty Service members who "sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) between 2000 and 2019 (Q3)," according to a recent study in the journal Military Medicine -- Burden of Behavioral Health Comorbidities on Outpatient Health Care Utilization by Active Duty Service Members With a First Documented mTBI.
Behavioral health comorbidities affect approximately one-third of ADSMs following a first mTBI, and approximately 17% of previously healthy active duty men and women will be diagnosed with a new BH condition in the year following a first mTBI. Post-mTBI outpatient health care utilization is highly dependent on the presence or absence of BH condition and is markedly higher is ADSMs with a BH diagnosis in the year after a first documented mTBI.