Fatigue symptoms in Sri Lanka Navy personnel deployed in combat areas
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Fatigue symptoms in Sri Lanka Navy personnel deployed in combat areas.
OBJECTIVES The objective was to study the prevalence of fatigue symptoms among Special Forces and regular forces military personnel deployed in combat areas and to explore factors associated with fatigue symptoms. METHODS This is a cross sectional study of representative samples of Sri Lanka Navy Special Forces and regular forces deployed in combat areas continuously for at least one year. Fa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v59i2.7062