What are the effects of having an illness or injury whilst deployed on post deployment mental health? A population based record linkage study of UK Army personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Forbes, Harriet J ^a   Jones, Norman ^b   Woodhead, Charlotte ^b   Greenberg, Neil ^b   Harrison, Kate ^c   White, Sandra ^c   Wessely, Simon ^b   Fear, Nicola T ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF DEFENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Deployment; Depression; Mental Health; Military; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARMY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SHORT FORM 36; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SOLDIER;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84867677476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-178     Document Type: Article

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