Development and psychometric evaluation of the mental readiness for military transition scale (MT-Ready)

BMC Psychiatry

Table 6 Mean MT-Ready Scores and t-test Results for Binary Variables Timepoint 1

	Yes			No			t-test			Cohen’s d
	n	M	SD	n	M	SD	t	p	df	Cohen’s d
1. Prepared for discharge?	197	60.03	8.86	148	47.19	11.54	11.27	< 0.001	267*	1.27
2. Process difficult?	196	51.59	11.80	149	58.38	10.98	-5.46	< 0.001	343	-0.59
3. Prepared for transition?	193	60.63	8.90	152	46.77	10.72	13.11	< 0.001	343	1.42
4. Easily reintegrate?	197	60.62	8.80	148	46.40	10.64	13.56	< 0.001	343	1.23
Provisional PTSD diagnosis	182²	59.37	9.84	133	47.80	10.94	9.83	< 0.001	313	1.12
	Poor/Very poor			Good/Very good				t-test		Cohen’s d
	n	M	SD	n	M	SD	t	p	df	Cohen’s d
Overall quality of life²	63	43.65	11.28	171	60.63	8.95	-10.76	< 0.001	92*	-1.76

Note. *Equal variances not assumed. Question 1: Do you think you are prepared for discharge? Question 2: Have you found the discharge process difficult? Question 3: Do you think you are prepared for your transition to civilian life? Question 4: Do you think you will easily reintegrate or adjust back to civilian life? Provisional PTSD diagnosis based on the PCL-5 criteria. Overall quality of life: Item 2 of the WHOQOL Brief. ¹PCL-5 completed by n = 340. ²Analysis excluded neutral responses (3) to the WHOQOL global item (n = 232).

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