Post-traumatic stress disorder among military personnel admitted at the Northwest Command Level Three Military Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2022

PTSD is markedly prevalent among the Ethiopian military population, with key risk factors identified as being female, poor social support, low resilience coping skills, handling dead bodies, multiple deployments (four or more), high combat experiences, and depression. Healthcare professionals must prioritize the early diagnosis and intervention of PTSD in vulnerable groups of military personnel

Confidence interval · Cross-sectional study · Logistic regression · Mental health · Military personnel · Odds ratio · Psychiatry · Demography · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Resilience and Mental Health · Internal Medicine

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