Violent behaviour in UK military personnel returning home after deployment

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1663-1673

  MacManus, D ^a   Dean, K ^a   Al Bakir, M ^a   Iversen, A C ^a   Hull, L ^a   Fahy, T ^a   Wessely, S ^a   Fear, N T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combat; deployment; military; trauma; violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; COHORT STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84863989072     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711002327     Document Type: Article

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