Sunday, April 21, 2013

Comprehensive Soldier Fitness not reviewed before 1 million troops trained

American Journal of Preventive Medicine has a study up on Comprehensive Soldier Fitness. Not sure what they found yet since I am not a member. This release in itself tells a very troubling finding in itself. If I could figure it out, why didn't they a long time ago?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Review of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program

Since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has implemented several population-based initiatives to enhance psychological resilience and prevent psychological morbidity in troops.

The largest of these initiatives is the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program, which has been disseminated to more than 1 million soldiers.

However, to date, CSF has not been independently and objectively reviewed, and the degree to which it successfully promotes adaptive outcomes and prevents the development of deployment-related mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is uncertain. This paper critically evaluates the theoretic foundation for and evidence supporting the use of CSF.
No telling if they find it should not have been done but if they don't, then they need to explain the rise in suicides, attempted suicides and PTSD cases.

Gee, do you think they maybe should have figured out if it would work or not before they did it to the troops?

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