ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2012
Suicide among war veterans.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevalence and risk factors of suicide and suicidal ideation in veterans who served in the British Armed Forces: a systematic review.BMJ military health · 2025Pooled it
- Qualitative exploration of service users and social prescribing link workers of the Armed Forces Community social prescribing scheme in Cornwall.BMJ open quality · 2026Article
- Silent regulators of trauma: the microRNA blueprint underlying post-traumatic stress disorder biology.Environmental epigenetics · 2026Review
- 'One Is Too Many' preventing self-harm and suicide in military veterans: a quantitative evaluation.BMJ military health · 2025Article
- Factors of suicide-related behaviors based on stress-vulnerability model and prevention strategies among nurses: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- An overview of the literature on assistance dogs using text mining and topic analysis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
- Comparing psychosocial functioning, suicide risk, and nonsuicidal self-injury between veterans with probable posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Resilience to Suicidal Ideation Among U.S. Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.Military behavioral health · 2022Article
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- The Mental Health Status of California Veterans.Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research) · 2016Article
- Suicidal behavior and spiritual functioning in a sample of Veterans diagnosed with PTSD.Journal of injury & violence research · 2016Article
- Lower prevalence of psychiatric conditions when negative age stereotypes are resisted.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2014Article
- California Veterans Receive Inadequate Treatment to Address their Mental Health Needs.American journal of medical research (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
Studies aiming to identify if war veterans are at higher risk of suicide have often produced inconsistent results; this could be due to the complexity of comparisons and different methodological approaches. It should be noted that this contingent has many risk factors, such as stressful exposures, wounds, brain trauma and pain syndrome. Most recent observations confirm that veterans are really more likely to die of suicide as compared to the general population; they are also more likely to experience suicidal ideation and suffer from mental health problems. Suicides are more frequent in those who develop PTSD, depression and comorbid states due to war exposure. Combat stress and its' frequency may be an important factor leading to suicide within the frame of the stress-vulnerability model. According to this model, the effects of stress may interact with social factors, interpersonal relations and psychological variables producing suicidal tendencies. Modern understanding of stress-vulnerability mechanisms based on genetic predispositions, early life development, level of exposure to stress and stress-reactivity together with interpersonal aspects may help to build more effective suicide prevention programs based on universal/selective/indicated prevention principles.
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