Srivastava, Kalpana Chatterjee, Kaushik Chauhan, Vinay S Panda, Srikrishna P Bhat, Pookala S
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Industrial psychiatry journal
Psychological resilience means adapting positively to adversity. This is armed forces' very context and function-encountering, enduring, and overcoming challenging situations through resilience. Scientific study of psychological resilience has moved from individual, to process, onward to developmental trajectories, and to neuro-biological underpinn...
Michenaud, Stephanie Bovet, Dalila Lamour, Thierry Laguette, Vanessa
This study aims to investigate the relationships and cooperation within human-dog teams working in olfactory search in the French Armed Forces and in national Police Forces. Twenty-six semi-structured interviews were carried out with canine handlers. The main topic concerned working with their dog during olfactory searches. Among the themes that st...
Williamson, Charlotte Palmer, Laura Leightley, Daniel Pernet, David Chandran, David Leal, Ray Murphy, Dominic Fear, Nicola T Stevelink, Sharon A M
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Healthcare provision in the United Kingdom (UK) falls primarily to the National Health Service (NHS) which is free at the point of access. In the UK, there is currently no national marker to identify military veterans in electronic health records, nor a requirement to record it. This study aimed to compare the sociodemographic characteristics and r...
Bovens, Dave van Baarle, Eva Molewijk, Bert
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BMC Medical Ethics
Background The field of personal health monitoring (PHM) develops rapidly in different contexts, including the armed forces. Understanding the ethical dimension of this type of monitoring is key to a morally responsible development, implementation and usage of PHM within the armed forces. Research on the ethics of PHM has primarily been carried out...
Spanakis, Panagiotis Gribble, Rachael Stevelink, Sharon A M Rona, Roberto J Fear, Nicola T Goodwin, Laura
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Despite the higher prevalence of problem drinking in the UK military compared to the general population, problem recognition appears to be low, and little is known about which groups are more likely to recognise a problem. This study examined prevalence of problem drinking recognition and its associations. We analysed data from 6400 regular serving...
Tellería Escobar, Loreta
Gran parte de la legitimidad de las fuerzas armadas en América Latina se sostiene en la creación de una narrativa de superioridad moral, cívica e institucional, que se refleja en la auto atribución de cualidades como “forjadores de la patria”, “constructores de la nación”, “defensores de la soberanía y del territorio”. No obstante, estas narrativas...
Smedberg, Micael Persson, Anders
Introduktion Arbetsrelaterad känsla av sammanhang (eng. WSOC) kan användas som en indikator för arbetstrivsel och bygger på hur anställda ser på sitt arbete utifrån hanterbarhet, begriplighet och meningsfullhet. Kunskapsläget gällande hur WSOC påverkar anställdas vilja att stanna hos sin arbetsgivare är begränsat. Syfte Syftet var att ...
Palmer, Laura Norton, Sam Rona, Roberto J Fear, Nicola T Stevelink, Sharon A M
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Journal of psychiatric research
Whilst most military personnel do not develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), ex-serving personnel exhibit higher levels compared to those in service. The heterogeneity of symptom development for serving and ex-serving personnel has not yet been examined in the UK Armed Forces (UK AF). Latent class growth modelling was employed to estimate t...
Meynard, J-B de Laval, F Texier, G Gorgé, O Degui, H Pommier de Santi, V
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Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine
Faced with the COVID-19 epidemic that occurred within the naval air group and the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the French Armed Forces Epidemiology and Public Health Center (CESPA) carried out an investigation (January - April 2020) whose objectives were: to identify the possible routes of introduction of the virus ; to describe the ...
Shamsi, Mohammad Bagher Veisi, Korosh Karimi, Luckman Safari, Ameneh
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Data in Brief
Two hundred people of the line (new and experienced) and staff (new and experienced) armed forces consisted of the samples. Using a flexible ruler, spinal curves (thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis) were measured. The biggest kyphosis and lordosis values were seen in experienced staff and experienced line groups and the smallest kyphosis and lor...
