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Help - seeking and receipt of treatment among UK service data

Influence of childhood adversity on health among male UK military personnel.

BACKGROUND Exposure to childhood adversity may explain why only a minority of combatants exposed to trauma develop psychological problems. AIMS To examine the association between self-reported childhood vulnerability and later health outcomes in a large randomly selected male military cohort. METHOD Data are derived from the first stage of a cohort study comparing Iraq veterans and non-depl...

Factors associated with heavy alcohol consumption in the U.K. armed forces: data from a health survey of Gulf, Bosnia, and era veterans.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the patterns of alcohol use in the U.K. Armed Forces or the factors associated with heavy drinking. METHODS Analysis of existing data from the King's Military Cohort was conducted of a large, randomly selected cohort of service personnel. The original sample consisted of 8,195 service personnel who served in the U.K. Armed Forces in 1991: a third deployed to t...

Help-seeking and receipt of treatment among UK service personnel.

BACKGROUND For armed forces personnel, data on help-seeking behaviour and receipt of treatment for mental disorders are important for both research and policy. AIMS To examine mental healthcare service use and receipt of treatment in a sample of the UK military. METHOD Participants were drawn from an existing UK military health cohort. The sample was stratified by reserve status and by part...

Risky driving among regular armed forces personnel from the United Kingdom.

BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for service personnel from the United Kingdom (UK). Little is known about the pattern of risky driving by these service personnel. METHODS Cross-sectional data (collected postdeployment, between June 2004 and March 2006) were analyzed from a large, randomly selected cohort of military personnel from the UK. These analyses were l...