Miloš Židanik
Health centre Maribor
Sodna ulica 13
2000 Maribor

 Key words: personality disorders; military training, military recruitment, screening tests

Abstract: The army training presents a very stressful life event potentially leading to several mental disorders. Therefore it is important to establish good screening methods to identify subjects’ proness to propulsive reactions and auto aggressive behaviour. I have analysed data from the sample of 1032 draftees from the Maribor's county in regard of different mental disorders that were established via screening and examinations of our health care professionals. Besides I have analysed the data from 71 soldiers that were already serving the military service and were urgently examined in psychiatric ambulatory care unit because of different mental health problems. Among the examined draftees there were only 471 (45,6%) fully capable for military duty, 180 were partially capable (5 because of mental health problems), 164 were temporary rejected for the army service (43 because of mental health problems) and 97 were rejected (72 because of different mental disorders). The most frequent reason for rejection or limitation of the capability for military service were personality disorders (56,7% of cases). In the sample of soldiers urgently examined in the psychiatric ambulatory care unit the frequency of personality disorders was even higher, 74,6%. Among them the dissocial personality disorder was the most frequent (41,5%). Addition of an inventory for personality disorders assessment to the psychological screening of draftees is proposed.