Screening Test for Detection of Major Psychiatric Disorders in Young Adults DAMD17-02-C-0021

"The goal of the project is to reduce the rate of attrition in basic training and duty due to psychiatric diagnoses by improved screening of candidates during the recruitment process. The Technical Objectives of the Phase II research are: (1) To finalizethe assessment framework; (2)To deploy the assessment framework with a Palm-based system at the Baltimore MEPS; (3)To obtain baseline assessment data from all qualified candidate recruits and to track basic training outcomes; (4)To develop and refinemodels that predict basic training outcomes from baseline assessment data, using parallel statistical and neural network approaches; and (5) To design and implement administrative interfaces that will support MEPS personnel in using assessment data and thepredictive models to efficiently classify recruit candidates."