UK Regular Armed Forces Medical discharges with a cause of pain as a proportion of all ‘cause-coded’ medical discharges in 2005/2006 and 2012/2013
| Pain as principal cause | Pain as a contributory (but not principal) cause | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005/2006 (%) | 2012/2013 (%) | % difference | 2005/2006 (%) | 2012/2013 (%) | % difference | |
| Naval Service | 19.7 | 22.1 | +2.5 | 2.9 | 2.8 | −0.1 |
| Army | 24.2 | 19.4 | −4.8* | 4.2 | 2.1 | −2.1 |
| RAF | 11.7 | 39.3 | +27.6* | 6.6 | 1.0 | −5.6 |
Naval Service includes Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
*Statistically significant (two-sample Z tests for proportions at 95% confidence level).