Abstract

CORREA JAUREGUI, Manuel et al. Social reintegration of young people discharged from the military service. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.2, pp.137-146. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction: the reintegration to social environment of subjects with health problems has been a worrying topic by the medical community and mainly of those that study the disabling diseases including the psychiatric ones. Objective: to characterize the behavior of social reintegration of the young people according to Psychiatry, as not able during the participation in the Active Military Service. Methods: a retrospective-cohort (historical), analytical, observational study was conducted in two groups of young people discharged from the military service in 2003 resident of Ciudad de La Habana. The first group included those valued according to Psychiatry and the second one, those concluded adequately in the same date. Results: there was a better premorbid fitting and social performance in the first ones, less possibilities of social reintegration in those valued with a high unemployment rate (36 %), less educational level (80 %) and less stability in partner relationship due to a great percentage of unmarried (62 %). Conclusions: there were differences among those to achieve conclude the Active Military Service in a satisfactory way and those valued as no able due to psychiatric disorders.

Keywords : community psychiatry; social reintegration; personality disorder.

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