ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2011
Health of national service veterans: an analysis of a community-based sample using data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of England.
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- A new psychological intervention: "512 Psychological Intervention Model" used for military rescuers in Wenchuan Earthquake in China.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Trial
- Recent physical conditions and health service utilization in people with common mental disorders and severe mental illness in England: Comparative cross-sectional data from a nationally representative sample.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Article
- The mental health of the UK Armed Forces: where facts meet fiction.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2014Article
- Recognition and treatment of psychological disorders during military service in the UK armed forces: a study of war pensioners.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Article
- Mental health of Special Forces personnel deployed in battle.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
purposeIn the context of increasing concerns for the health of UK armed forces veterans, this study aims to compare the prevalence of current mental, physical and behavioural difficulties in conscripted national service veterans with population controls, and to assess the impact of length of service in the military. The compulsory nature of national service sets these veterans apart from younger veterans.
methodData are drawn from a nationally representative community-dwelling sample of England. We compared 484 male national service veterans to 301 male non-veterans aged 65+ years.
resultsThere were no differences in mental, behavioural or physical outcomes, except that veterans were less likely to have "any mental disorder" than non-veterans (age adjusted OR = 0.56, 95% CI 0.31, 0.99). Longer serving veterans were older but were not different in terms of mental, behavioural or physical outcomes.
conclusionsCommunity-dwelling national service veterans are at no greater risk of current adverse mental, physical or behavioural health than population controls.
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