Methods: Five hundred and sixty-eight servicemen engaged in LIC operations and equal number of age- and rank-matched personnel in adjoining peace areas were evaluated with a self-made questionnaire, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), Carroll Rating Scale for Depression (CRSD), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), Impact of Events Scale (IES), Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ), Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI), Hindi PEN inventory, Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and Locus Of Control (LOC) scale. Though the Indian army is engaged in low intensity conflict (LIC) operations for over five decades, the psychological effects of LIC deployment on soldiers have not been adequately studied.Īims: To evaluate the psychological effects of deployment in LIC operations on service personnel. Formerly HOD, Psychiatry Department, Command Hospital (Northern Command)., India 2 Armed Forces Medical Services and National Consultant Mental Health, India 3 Command Hospital (Northern Command) and Director General Medical Services, IndiaĬlick here for correspondence address andīackground: A burgeoning clinical and empirical literature has provided incontrovertible evidence that combat operations exact a heavy toll in terms of human suffering not only on combatants but also military support personnel.

Suprakash Chaudhury 1, DS Goel 2, Harcharan Singh 3ġ Department of Psychiatry, Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS). Psychological effects of low intensity conflict (LIC) operations

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