A comprehensive searchable repository providing access to international evidence and reports about the Armed Forces community. Updated each month using robust methodology, the repository can be used confidently by all to identify and access relevant evidence. A user-friendly search tool is available to support your research needs and includes the ability to specify key words, themes, author, year of publication, country of origin, methods used, and whether items have been peer reviewed.
Abstract: Purpose: There is speculation that high rates of mental illness among Reservists returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan may be due to the challenge of …
Abstract: Although the suicide rate in the military has traditionally been lower than the civilian rate (Kang & Bullman, 2008), suicide rates in recent years have trended …
Abstract: The legacy of Gulf War Syndrome led to fears that the deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 would have an effect on the mental health of the UK armed forces. …
Abstract: The association of rape history and sexual partnership with alcohol and drug use consequences in women veterans is unknown. Midwestern women veterans (N = 1,004) …
Abstract: This report provides statistical information on mental health in the UK Armed Forces in the period January to December 2010. It summarises all attendances for a new …
Abstract: In June 2009 the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence announced to Parliament that a Feasibility Study was to be undertaken into the possibility of …
Abstract: This policy brief explores the subject of violence in families impacted by military service, including recognising the relationship between mental wounds and violent …
Abstract: There is now an abundance of research which has demonstrated that military personnel who deploy on operations are at increased risk of suffering a variety of mental …
Abstract: Traditionally alcohol has been used by the military to cope with the intense stress of battle but also as a way of mediating the transition from the heightened experience …
Abstract: Background: Family caregivers of individuals with stigmatized conditions can experience stigma-by-association and discrimination. Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain …
Abstract: This letter to the editor considers how the co-occurrence of conditions involving memory loss (dementia) and intrusive expression of trauma memories (PTSD) underscores …