The mental health of deployed UK maritime forces

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 75-82

  Whybrow, Dean ^a   Jones, Norman ^b   Evans, Charlotte ^c   Minshall, Darren ^c   Smith, Darren ^c   Greenberg, Neil ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Defence Primary Health Care Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARMY; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MORALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SHIP; SOLDIER; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SHIPS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954337668     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2015-102961     Document Type: Article

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