Abstract: Objectives: To assess (a) the prevalence of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in UK military personnel deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan, (b) the risk factors …
Abstract: Aim: To determine longer term health outcome in a cohort of UK service personnel who received the anthrax vaccination. Method: We conducted a three year follow up of UK …
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: New report emphasises the role of alcohol, social exclusion, and financial problems as contributing factors to why some ex-armed forces personnel end up in prison.
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: Trauma Risk Management is a peer-support program that aims to promote help-seeking in the aftermath oftraumatic events. Prior to its implementation, the British military …
Abstract: Background: Concerns have been raised about the psychological effect of continued combat exposure and of repeated deployments. We examined the consequences of deployment …
Abstract: In this report we summarise the available evidence on the health and social outcomes, and the heath service experiences, of former members of the UK Armed Forces …
Abstract: The mental health of the Armed Forces is an important issue of both academic and public interest. The aims of this study are to: a) assess the prevalence and risk …
Abstract: This article reviews the use of psychological decompression as applied to troops returning from active service in operational theaters. Definitions of the term are …
Abstract: There is considerable interest in understanding further the factors that increase the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for military personnel. This study …
Abstract: Background: There is uncertainty about whether women in the military have more psychological symptoms than men and whether psychological symptoms have increased over …