Can mental health and readjustment be improved in UK military personnel by a brief period of structured postdeployment rest (third location decompression)?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 439-445

  Jones, Norman ^a   Jones, Margaret ^a   Fear, Nicola T ^a   Fertout, Mohammed ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY PHENOMENA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLDIER; THIRD LOCATION DECOMPRESSION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879691947     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101229     Document Type: Article

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