Irritable bowel syndrome in the UK military after deployment to Iraq: What are the risk factors?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1755-1765

  Goodwin, Laura ^a   Bourke, Julius H ^b   Forbes, Harriet ^a   Hotopf, Matthew ^a   Hull, Lisa ^a   Jones, Norman ^a   Rona, Roberto J ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a   Fear, Nicola T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common mental disorder; Deployment; Diarrhoea and vomiting; Gastroenteritis; Irritable bowel syndrome; Military

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAQ; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VOMITING; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885952129     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-013-0699-6     Document Type: Article

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