How do experiences in Iraq affect alcohol use among male UK armed forces personnel?

Browne, Tess; Iversen, Amy; Hull, Lisa; Workman, Lorna; Barker, Christopher; Horn, Oded; Jones, Margaret; Murphy, Dominic; Greenberg, Neil; Rona, Roberto J.; Hotopf, Matthew; Wessely, Simon; Fear, Nicola T.

doi:10.1136/oem.2007.036830

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“…The analysis of unit cohesion is based on work from the King's Centre for Military Health Research using similar items [33,64,102](refer to Volume II). The analysis of associations between individual unit cohesion items and health measures showed consistent results across all five items and between deployment locations, Iraq and Afghanistan.…”

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Physical comorbidities of post‐traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam War veterans

McLeay

Harvey

Romaniuk

et al. 2017

Medical Journal of Australia

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Physical comorbidities of post‐traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam War veterans

McLeay

Harvey

Romaniuk

et al. 2017

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…20 Caseness was scored as eight and a positive score for diplomats was taken as 12 (a mid-point between the conventional cutoff and the military cutoff. 21,22 The questionnaire also asked questions about the posting experience. Appraisal of posting experience included whether the posting was (1) a positive (defined in terms of reports of pride, fondness, or accomplishment) or negative experience (defined in terms of reports of confusion, regret, or anger); (2) professionally rewarding; and (3) personally rewarding.…”

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Coping With the Impact of Working in a Conflict Zone

Hibberd¹,

Greenberg²

2011

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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“…Despite the high level of combat exposure, only two of the ten items measuring combat exposure were associated with fatigue. "Thought might be killed and "coming under mortar, missile, artillery fire" can be classified as risk to self events [33,34]. Some of these "risk to self events" were also associated with increased risk of smoking [25].…”

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Fatigue symptoms in Sri Lanka Navy personnel deployed in combat areas

Hanwella¹,

Jayasekera²,

Silva

2014

Ceylon Med. J.

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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. Fatigue was measured using a 12 item fatigue scale. Symptoms of common mental disorder were identified using the General Health questionnaire 12 (GHQ-12). Multiple physical symptoms were elicited using a checklist of symptoms. PTSD was diagnosed using the 17-item National Centre for PTSD checklist civilian version (PCL-C).Results Sample consisted of 259 Special Forces and 412 regular navy personnel. Prevalence of fatigue over the last month was 13.41% (95% CI 10.83-16.00). Prevalence was significantly less in the Special Forces (5.4%) than in the regular forces (18.4%) [OR 0.38 (95% CI 0.17-0.82)]. Only two types of combat exposure "thought I might be killed" and "coming under mortar, missile and artillery fire" were significantly associated with fatigue symptoms. Fatigue was strongly associated with symptoms of common mental illness [adjusted OR 12.82 (95% CI 7.10-23.12)], PTSD [adjusted OR 9.08 (95% CI 2.84-29.0)] and multiple somatic symptoms ]. Fatigue was significantly associated with functional impairment.Conclusions Prevalence of fatigue was significantly lower in the Special Forces despite high combat exposure. Fatigue was associated only with indicators of intense combat exposure. Fatigue caused significant functional impairment even after adjusting for psychological morbidity.

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How do experiences in Iraq affect alcohol use among male UK armed forces personnel?

Abstract: Deployment experiences and problems at home during and following deployment, as well as the occupational milieu of the unit, influence personnel's risk of heavy drinking.

Cited by 65 publications

References 34 publications

Physical comorbidities of post‐traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam War veterans

Physical comorbidities of post‐traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam War veterans

Coping With the Impact of Working in a Conflict Zone

Fatigue symptoms in Sri Lanka Navy personnel deployed in combat areas

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