Trial reportSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
Stigmatisation, perceived barriers to care, help seeking and the mental health of British Military personnel.
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- Social Embeddedness of Firefighters, Paramedics, Specialized Nurses, Police Officers, and Military Personnel: Systematic Review in Relation to the Risk of Traumatization.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- 'Man up and get on with it': a qualitative exploration of UK ex-serving personnel's experiences of seeking help for self-harm and suicidal behaviours.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Examining Sex-Based Delays in Utilizing Advocacy Support Services Among Australian Military Veterans: Implications for Health Care Access and Suicide Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Concept Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Awareness of and willingness to access support among UK military personnel who reported a mental health difficulty.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2023Article
- Associations between individual cognitive factors, mode of exposure and depression symptoms in practitioners working with aversive crime material.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Attitudes and perceived barriers to mental healthcare in the People's Liberation Army Navy: study from a navy base.BMJ military health · 2022Article
- The mental health of emergency services personnel in the UK Biobank: a comparison with the working population.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2020Article
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- Perceived stigma and barriers to care in UK Armed Forces personnel and veterans with and without probable mental disorders.BMC psychology · 2019Article
- Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2019Article
- Stigma doesn't discriminate: physical and mental health and stigma in Canadian military personnel and Canadian civilians.BMC psychology · 2018Article
- DIAMOND (DIgital Alcohol Management ON Demand): a feasibility RCT and embedded process evaluation of a digital health intervention to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol use recruiting in hospital emergency departments and online.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2018Article
- Internet Support for Dealing with Problematic Alcohol Use: A Survey of the Soberistas Online Community.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2017Article
- Combat experience and problem drinking in veterans: Exploring the roles of PTSD, coping motives, and perceived stigma.Addictive behaviors · 2017Article
- DIAMOND (DIgital Alcohol Management ON Demand): a mixed methods feasibility RCT and embedded process evaluation of a digital health intervention to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol use.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionThe relationship between mental health symptoms, stigmatising beliefs about mental health and help seeking is complex and poorly understood.
method1636 UK Armed Forces personnel provided study data immediately after deployment (T1) and approximately 6 months later (T2). Stigmatising beliefs were assessed using an eight-item scale previously used in studies of UK military personnel. Symptoms of probable common mental disorder, probable post-traumatic stress disorder and subjective stressful, emotional, relationship and family problems were evaluated at T1 and T2. Help seeking during deployment was assessed at T1 and post-deployment help seeking at T2. Alcohol use and subjective alcohol problems were assessed at T2 only.
resultsReporting a probable mental health disorder or potentially harmful alcohol use following deployment was both significantly associated with higher levels of stigmatising beliefs. The reported degree of stigma was associated with changes in mental health symptom levels; compared to those who were never classified as a probable mental health disorder case, recovered cases experienced significantly lower levels of stigmatisation, whereas new onset cases reported significantly higher levels.
conclusionThe way that individuals report mental health stigmatisation is not static; rather stigma fluctuates in proportion to the frequency and severity of psychological symptoms. These results suggest that public health stigma-reduction strategies which aim to promote engagement with mental health services should be focused towards people who are experiencing worsening mental health. Our results suggest that willing volunteers who have recovered from a mental-ill-health episode may be well placed to assist in the delivery of such a strategy.
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