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Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?

Background: UK armed forces personnel are at risk of occupational psychological injury; they are often reluctant to seek help for such problems. Objective: We aimed to examine and describe sources of support, prevalence and associates of help-seeking among UK serving and ex-serving personnel. Method...

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Autores principales: Stevelink, Sharon A. M., Jones, Norman, Jones, Margaret, Dyball, Daniel, Khera, Charandeep K., Pernet, David, MacCrimmon, Shirlee, Murphy, Dominic, Hull, Lisa, Greenberg, Neil, MacManus, Deirdre, Goodwin, Laura, Sharp, Marie-Louise, Wessely, Simon, Rona, Roberto J., Fear, Nicola T.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6338286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2018.1556552
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author Stevelink, Sharon A. M.
Jones, Norman
Jones, Margaret
Dyball, Daniel
Khera, Charandeep K.
Pernet, David
MacCrimmon, Shirlee
Murphy, Dominic
Hull, Lisa
Greenberg, Neil
MacManus, Deirdre
Goodwin, Laura
Sharp, Marie-Louise
Wessely, Simon
Rona, Roberto J.
Fear, Nicola T.
author_facet Stevelink, Sharon A. M.
Jones, Norman
Jones, Margaret
Dyball, Daniel
Khera, Charandeep K.
Pernet, David
MacCrimmon, Shirlee
Murphy, Dominic
Hull, Lisa
Greenberg, Neil
MacManus, Deirdre
Goodwin, Laura
Sharp, Marie-Louise
Wessely, Simon
Rona, Roberto J.
Fear, Nicola T.
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description Background: UK armed forces personnel are at risk of occupational psychological injury; they are often reluctant to seek help for such problems. Objective: We aimed to examine and describe sources of support, prevalence and associates of help-seeking among UK serving and ex-serving personnel. Method: A total of 1450 participants who self-reported a stress, emotional or mental health problem in the past 3 years were sampled from a health and wellbeing study and subsequently completed a telephone interview comprising measures of mental disorder symptoms, alcohol misuse and help-seeking behaviour. Results: Seven per cent of participants had not sought any help, 55% had accessed medical sources of support (general practitioner or mental health specialist), 46% had received formal non-medical (welfare) support and 86% had used informal support. Gender, age, perceived health, functional impairment, social support, deployment, alcohol and comorbidity impacted upon the choice of help source. Conclusions: This study found that the majority of those with perceived mental health problems sought some form of help, with over half using formal medical sources of support.
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spelling pubmed-63382862019-01-28 Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems? Stevelink, Sharon A. M. Jones, Norman Jones, Margaret Dyball, Daniel Khera, Charandeep K. Pernet, David MacCrimmon, Shirlee Murphy, Dominic Hull, Lisa Greenberg, Neil MacManus, Deirdre Goodwin, Laura Sharp, Marie-Louise Wessely, Simon Rona, Roberto J. Fear, Nicola T. Eur J Psychotraumatol Basic Research Article Background: UK armed forces personnel are at risk of occupational psychological injury; they are often reluctant to seek help for such problems. Objective: We aimed to examine and describe sources of support, prevalence and associates of help-seeking among UK serving and ex-serving personnel. Method: A total of 1450 participants who self-reported a stress, emotional or mental health problem in the past 3 years were sampled from a health and wellbeing study and subsequently completed a telephone interview comprising measures of mental disorder symptoms, alcohol misuse and help-seeking behaviour. Results: Seven per cent of participants had not sought any help, 55% had accessed medical sources of support (general practitioner or mental health specialist), 46% had received formal non-medical (welfare) support and 86% had used informal support. Gender, age, perceived health, functional impairment, social support, deployment, alcohol and comorbidity impacted upon the choice of help source. Conclusions: This study found that the majority of those with perceived mental health problems sought some form of help, with over half using formal medical sources of support. Taylor & Francis 2019-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6338286/ /pubmed/30693074 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2018.1556552 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stevelink, Sharon A. M.
Jones, Norman
Jones, Margaret
Dyball, Daniel
Khera, Charandeep K.
Pernet, David
MacCrimmon, Shirlee
Murphy, Dominic
Hull, Lisa
Greenberg, Neil
MacManus, Deirdre
Goodwin, Laura
Sharp, Marie-Louise
Wessely, Simon
Rona, Roberto J.
Fear, Nicola T.
Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title_full Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title_fullStr Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title_full_unstemmed Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title_short Do serving and ex-serving personnel of the UK armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
title_sort do serving and ex-serving personnel of the uk armed forces seek help for perceived stress, emotional or mental health problems?
topic Basic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6338286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2018.1556552
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