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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danai Valladares-Garrido, Helena Dominguez-Troncos, Cinthia Karina Picón-Reátegui, Christopher Valdiviezo-Morales, Víctor J Vera-Ponce, Virgilio E Failoc-Rojas, César Johan Pereira-Victorio, Darwin A León-Figueroa, Mario J Valladares-Garrido
INTRODUCTION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the mounting workload and heightened stress may contribute to exacerbated mental health challenges, including an increased fear of COVID-19, among military personnel. Despite the potential influence of these factors, there remains a scarcity of studies addressing mental health issues, particularly the fear of COVID-19, within this specific population. We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with fear of COVID-19 among military members...
2024: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sergii Boltivets, Tymur Gonchar, Oleksiy Gonchar, Lyudmila Uralova, Yuliya Chelyadyn
The relevance of the research subject is to explore the neurotic disorders that arise in people affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war and who witness violence and war crimes. The purpose of the research is to reflect the specific features of the mental reaction of children and adults to military actions as an example of global social stress. Bibliographic, bibliosemantic, and statistical research methods were used in the research. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the number of patients with prolonged depression and schizophrenia has increased, and neurotic disorders has become more severe and acute...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanina Ovsyannikova, Diana Pokhilko, Mykola Krasnokutskyi, Valentyn Kerdyvar, Kateryna Kreshchuk
The purpose of the research work is the theoretical and empirical analysis of the study of the nature of combat stress in military personnel and the assessment of psychotherapeutic methods of providing psychological assistance in extreme situations. The authors used the following methods to achieve this goal: method of analysis and synthesis, hermeneutic method, testing method, comparative method, and generalization method. The results of the research work have revealed the meaning of traumatic stress, psychological trauma, and combat mental trauma, and explained the concept of combat stress and the dynamics of its growth...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bhavni Oberoi, Sargundeep Singh, Azhagesan E, Reetu Agarwal, Sridhar Jandhyala
BACKGROUND: Dermatology and psychiatry are two specialties which often have a bearing on each other. Multiple indices have been used to study the quality of life in skin diseases; however, very few studies have correlated these indices with questionnaires of common psychiatric comorbidities like anxiety and depression. METHODS: The study was conducted in a dermatology out patient department (OPD) of a tertiary care hospital. All patients with chronic dermatological conditions (meeting the inclusion criteria) were included, and each patient was made to fill two questionnaires that are Skindex-29 for skin-related quality of life and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) for depression...
2024: Medical Journal, Armed Forces India
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EDITORIAL
Darren Minshall
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March 20, 2024: BMJ military health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander C Kline, Nicholas Otis, Kaitlyn E Panza, Cameron T McCabe, Lisa Glassman, Justin S Campbell, Kristen H Walter
Depression frequently co-occurs with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including among active duty service members. However, symptom heterogeneity of this comorbidity is complex and its association with treatment outcomes is poorly understood, particularly among active duty service members in residential treatment. This study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify symptom-based subgroups of PTSD and depression among 282 male service members in a 10-week, residential PTSD treatment program with evidence-based PTSD psychotherapies and adjunctive interventions...
March 8, 2024: Journal of Psychiatric Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elina A Stefanovics, Carlos M Grilo, Marc N Potenza, Robert H Pietrzak
Obesity disproportionately affects Latinx communities and is linked to an increased risk of mental health problems. Military veterans are more likely to develop mental health problems, but the role of Latinx ethnicity in moderating the association between obesity and these problems is unclear. To address this gap, this study examined psychiatric and psychosocial correlates of obesity in a nationally representative sample of Latinx and White U.S. military veterans. Data were analyzed from the 2019-2020 National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study, which surveyed 3524 Latinx and White veterans...
March 8, 2024: Psychiatry Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gangaw Zaw, Shoba Sreenivasan, Laljit Sidhu
Forensic evaluators may have little experience and knowledge of the political context of Myanmar, the Burmese people, and the refugee crisis. Oppression of several ethnic minority groups has marked Burmese military rule of Myanmar for several decades. Protracted trauma exposure, both pre- and post-migration, among refugee populations increases the risk for mental health disorders, particularly depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, and posttraumatic stress disorder. These experiences may result in anger and psychiatric manifestations that bring Burmese refugees in conflict with the law in their host country...
March 11, 2024: Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mascha van 't Wout-Frank, Amanda R Arulpragasam, Christiana Faucher, Emily Aiken, M Tracie Shea, Richard N Jones, Benjamin D Greenberg, Noah S Philip
IMPORTANCE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common psychiatric disorder that is particularly difficult to treat in military veterans. Noninvasive brain stimulation has significant potential as a novel treatment to reduce PTSD symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To test whether active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) plus virtual reality (VR) is superior to sham tDCS plus VR for warzone-related PTSD. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted among US military veterans enrolled from April 2018 to May 2023 at a secondary care Department of Veterans Affairs hospital and included 1- and 3-month follow-up visits...
March 6, 2024: JAMA Psychiatry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alan Finnegan, K Salem, L Ainsworth-Moore
INTRODUCTION: In 2021, the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust allocated over £2 million to programmes designed to have a clear and demonstrable impact on suicide prevention. Four grant holders delivered a combination of psychotherapeutic interventions, group activities, social prescribing, peer support mentoring, life skills coaching, educational courses and practical help with housing and employment. The evaluation was completed between August 2021 and July 2023. METHODS: A survey was completed by 503 participants at entry and 423 at exit...
March 5, 2024: BMJ military health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J M Litvin, P L Kaminski, A Ryals
The purpose of this study was to develop the Complex Trauma Screener (CTS), a brief screener (seven items) of the ICD-11 trauma disorders that can be used in "quick-paced" facilities. We examined the factor structure of the CTS in two separate samples: civilian college students (N = 823) and military veterans (N = 130) who reported exposure to at least one traumatic event. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) supported two highly-correlated factors (post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and Disturbances in Self-Organization [DSO]) that loaded on the ICD-11-consistent items...
February 24, 2024: Psychiatry Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander Testa, Jack Tsai
Exposure to incarceration can have significant ramifications for one's social relationships. However, the study of how the incarceration of a family member influences loneliness, including among specific segments of the population that experience elevated levels of loneliness, such as U.S. military veterans, has gone understudied. This study aimed to examine the relationship between family member incarceration and perceptions of loneliness among a sample of low-income U.S. military veterans. Data are from the National Veteran Homeless and Other Poverty Experiences Study-a national survey of low-income U...
February 29, 2024: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew J Lawrence, Ellie Lawrence-Wood, Eugene V Aidman, Phaedra L Spencer-Merris, Kim L Felmingham, Alexander C McFarlane
Evidence now suggests that traumatic-stress impacts brain functions even in the absence of acute-onset post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. These neurophysiological changes have also been suggested to account for increased risks of PTSD symptoms later developing in the aftermath of subsequent trauma. However, surprisingly few studies have explicitly examined brain function dynamics in high-risk populations, such as combat exposed military personnel without diagnosable PTSD. To extend available research, facial expression sensitive N170 event-related potential (ERP) amplitudes were examined in a clinically healthy sample of active service military personnel with recurrent combat exposure history...
February 23, 2024: Journal of Psychiatric Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Charles A Darmour, Jeremy W Luk, Jessica M LaCroix, Kanchana U Perera, David B Goldston, Alyssa A Soumoff, Jennifer J Weaver, Marjan Ghahramanlou-Holloway
The associations between social support and stress with internalizing symptoms (depressive symptoms and hopelessness) and hazardous drinking were tested in an inpatient sample of suicidal military personnel. Baseline data from a randomized clinical trial were analyzed. Different sources of support and stressors in the social context of military personnel were differentially linked to internalizing symptoms and hazardous drinking. In the full sample (n = 192), family and nonfamily support were both inversely associated with internalizing symptoms but not hazardous drinking...
February 5, 2024: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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EDITORIAL
Toby James Holland, M Smith, K King
The geopolitical setting has changed significantly since the definition of UK Armed Forces General Practice was published in 2012. New operating models require medical services to provide smaller teams operating at greater reach from secondary care and logistical support. The Defence Medical Services have reorganised to meet these changing needs. Defence general practices (DGPs) are key enablers of the Defence strategic effort, both integral to deployed units, in preparing forces for deployment and managing their rehabilitation back to fitness...
February 27, 2024: BMJ military health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alana Z Slavin, Ian C Fischer, Robert H Pietrzak
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are robustly associated with adverse mental health outcomes across the lifespan. Military veterans may be particularly vulnerable to adverse mental health effects of ACEs given their potentially higher prevalence of childhood traumas and compounding effects of military service-related traumas. To date, however, scarce research has examined the differential impact of individual ACEs on mental health outcomes in population-based samples of veterans. To address this gap, we analyzed data from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study (NHRVS), which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 4069 U...
February 26, 2024: Journal of Psychiatric Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rajiv Saini, R C Das, Kaushik Chatterjee, Kalpana Srivastava, Anurag Khera, Sunil Agrawal
BACKGROUND: Mental health literacy (MHL) helps in acknowledging the symptoms at an early stage, thus promoting prompt management of negative stress behaviors. Despite the central thrust towards augmentation of MHL of troops, there is a paucity of available literature on the subject matter, especially in the Indian context. Current research explores the efficacy of a standardized Information Education and Communication (IEC) module for the promotion of MHL among troops. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 1200 soldiers posted in a large military station underwent a psycho-educational module about stress and related mental health conditions in an open-label experimental study...
November 2023: Industrial Psychiatry Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benedikt Wicki, Danielle Vienneau, Beat Schäffer, Thomas J Müller, Ulrich Raub, Jonin Widrig, Charlotte Pervilhac, Martin Röösli
BACKGROUND: Existing evidence suggests that psychiatric patients are highly noise sensitive, and that noise exposure increases the risk for adverse mental health outcomes, such as psychiatric hospitalizations and even suicide. To investigate acute effects of noise in this vulnerable population, we assessed short-term associations between fighter jet noise and on-demand sedative and analgesic drug administrations in a psychiatric clinic located close to a military airfield in Switzerland...
February 15, 2024: Environment International
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EDITORIAL
Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal, Willem A C M van de Put, Andreas Maercker, Stevan E Hobfoll, Velayudhan Mohan Kumar, Corrado Barbui, Arehally Marappa Mahalaksmi, Saravana Babu Chidambaram, Per Olof Lundmark, Tual Sawn Khai, Lukoye Atwoli, Vitalii Poberezhets, Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar, Derebe Madoro, Hernán Andrés Marín Agudelo, Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole, Luísa Teixeira-Santos, Paulo Pereira, Konda Mani Saravanan, Anton Vrdoljak, Miguel Meira E Cruz, Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian, Alvin Kuowei Tay, Janne Grønli, Marit Sijbrandij, Sudhakar Sivasubramaniam, Meera Narasimhan, Eta Ngole Mbong, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Joop T V M de Jong, Mario H Braakman, Maurice Eisenbruch, Darío Acuña-Castroviejo, Koos van der Velden, Gregory M Brown, Markku Partinen, Alexander C McFarlane, Michael Berk
The ongoing wars in many regions-such as the conflict between Israel and Hamas-as well as the effects of war on communities, social services, and mental health are covered in this special editorial. This article emphasizes the need for international efforts to promote peace, offer humanitarian aid, and address the mental health challenges faced by individuals and communities affected by war and violence.
December 2023: Clin Psychol Eur
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicole Sadler, David Pedlar, Robert Ursano
Objective: This commentary highlights challenges and opportunities in suicide prevention across the military and veteran populations of the Five Eyes nations. Methods: Trends in suicides and suicidality in military and veteran populations are outlined, as well as identified risk and protective factors, and approaches to suicide prevention. Results: Suicide risk is higher in veterans compared to current serving and community samples. Despite extensive research, the causation, prediction, and prevention of suicide, is still not well understood...
February 14, 2024: Psychiatry
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