Introduction Developing or presenting with a serious mental illness whilst working offshore may result in substantial barriers to treatment, rehabilitation and repatriation one’s home country, especially amid changes border control practices over the COVID-19 pandemic. Further difficulties arise relation language cultural barriers. Objectives Our aim was explore experience of providing safe eff...

Karen Kristine Sørensen, Peter McCourt, Trond Berg, Clive Crossley, David Le Couteur, Kenjiro Wake, and Bård Smedsrød Vascular Biology Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasman...

To investigate the association between war zone stress exposure during international military operations and later suicidal ideation, a follow-up study of 1172 Norwegian male peacekeepers was conducted 7 years, on average, after redeployment. Suicidal ideation was reported in 6% of the veterans, while it was reported in 17% of the subsample of those who were prematurely repatriated. Suicidal id...

Management of insomnia rose significantly by age, from 0.2% of encounters with patients aged <25 years to 2.7% with patients aged 75 years and over. Insomnia was significantly more likely to be managed for female patients (1.4%) than for males (1.1%). Female patients were therefore significantly over represented at insomnia encounters (66.0%) compared with total BEACH encounters (57.1%), as wer...