DOI: 10.3886/icpsr35197.v5
title: Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS)
title: Version 5

description: ***************************************************************************************** July 20, 2020: STARRS-Longitudinal Study Wave 2 (LSW2) data released ***************************************************************************************** The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) is an extensive study of mental health risk and resilience among military personnel. Army STARRS has five study components: (1) Historical Administrative Data Study, (2) New Soldier Study (NSS), (3) All Army Study (AAS), (4) Pre-Post Deployment Study (PPDS), and (5) Special Studies. At this time, the AAS, NSS, and PPDS data are available from ICPSR under a restricted-use data agreement via the Virtual Data Enclave (VDE). In addition, data for the STARRS-Longitudinal Study (STARRS-LS) are available for follow-up surveys conducted with Army STARRS participants from AAS, NSS and PPDS studies. The AAS component of Army STARRS assesses soldiers' psychological and physical health, events encountered during training, combat, and non-combat operations, and life and work experiences across all phases of Army service. The AAS data includes data on soldiers' psychological resilience, mental health, and risk for self-harm. The NSS data are drawn from new soldiers who have just entered the Army. The data contain information on soldier health, personal characteristics, and prior experiences. Results from a series of neurocognitive tests are also included in the NSS data. The PPDS data are drawn from active duty soldiers who were interviewed at four points in time: 3-4 months prior to deployment to Afghanistan; within 1-2 weeks after return from deployment; 1-3 months after return from deployment; and 9-12 months after return from deployment. The PPDS data contain information on soldiers' psychological resilience, mental health, deployment experiences, and risk for self-harm. The STARRS-LS data are from multiple follow-up interviews with individuals who previously participated in the AAS, NSS and PPDS study components of Army STARRS. STARRS-LS data contain follow-up information on soldiers' and veterans' physical and mental health, resilience and risk for self-harm, military and employment status, deployment experience, and personal characteristics as they move through their Army careers and after they leave the Army.
description: The Army STARRS project was conducted to identify factors that help protect a soldier's mental health and factors that put a soldier's mental health at risk.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: All Army Study DS2: New Soldier Study DS3: Master Respondent ID Linkage Table DS4: Pre/Post Deployment Study - Weights DS5: Pre/Post Deployment Study - Time 0 DS6: Pre/Post Deployment Study - Time 1 DS7: Pre/Post Deployment Study - Time 2 DS8: Pre/Post Deployment Study - Time 3 DS9: Longitudinal Study Wave 1 DS10: Longitudinal Study Wave 2
description: computer-assisted self interview (CASI)
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
description: paper and pencil interview (PAPI)
description: on-site questionnaire
description: web-based survey
description: Active duty regular Army, activated or deactivated Guard and Reserve, separated or retired regular Army, Guard, and Reserve servicemembers who have previously participated in an Army STARRS study.