Occupational medicine
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Occupational medicine · Mar 2015
Comparative StudyMental health of UK Armed Forces medical personnel post-deployment.
The mental health effects of deployment vary widely, and personnel in both combat and combat support roles, including medical personnel, may be adversely affected. ⋯ These results suggest that while the overall rates of self-reported mental health disorders were similar in FMs and RLMs, FMs reported more PTSD symptoms than all other roles, which may have been related to working in more hostile environments in more challenging roles while deployed and their experiences on returning home.