Combat near-death experiences: an exploratory study.
Military Medicine October 1, 2014 Tracy H Goza, Janice Holden, Lee Kinsey
Combat near-death experiences (cNDEs) are not signs of mental illness. In a survey of 68 military personnel who survived close brushes with death during combat, 20 met criteria for a near-death experience. Compared to near-death experiencers from other studies, combat experiencers scored lower overall on the Near-Death Experience Scale and on its Affective and Transcendental subscales, but higher on the Cognitive subscale. On a measure of life changes, combat experiencers showed changes in the same direction as other near-death experiencers, but only changes in spirituality and total change showed medium effect sizes; other differences were small and not statistically significant.