Mental health status of Sri Lanka Navy personnel three years after end of combat operations: A follow up study

  • Hanwella, R., Jayasekera, N. E. L. W., & de Silva, V. A. (2014). Mental health status of Sri Lanka Navy personnel three years after end of combat operations: A follow up study. PLoS ONE, 9(9), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108113

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108113

Authors

Hanwella, Raveen
Jayasekera, Nicholas E. L. W.
de Silva, Varuni A.

Publication Type

Article

Focus Terms

Deployment
Mental health
Substance use
Trauma

Branch of Service

International Military
Navy

Military Affiliation

Active Duty

Subject Affiliation

Active duty service member

Population

Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)

Methodology

Cross-Sectional Study
Quantitative Study

Journal

PLoS ONE

Keywords

addiction
alcoholism
anxiety disorders
applied psychology
armed forces
biology and life sciences
ethnicities
governments
maladjustment
medicine and health sciences
mental health and psychiatry
military personnel
military psychology
navy
neuropsychiatric disorders
people and places
political science
population groupings
post-traumatic stress disorder
psychological stress
psychology
research article
sinhalese people
social sciences
substance-related disorders

Sponsors

Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo

Publisher/Sponsoring Organization

Public Library of Science

Author Affiliation

Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, RH
General Health Services, Sri Lanka Navy, NELWJ
Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, VAD

URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177866/pdf/pone.0108113.pdf

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