Suicide after leaving the UK Armed Forces 1996-2018: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are comparatively few international studies investigating suicide in military veterans and no recent UK-wide studies. This is important because the wider context of being a UK Armed Forces (UKAF) veteran has changed in recent years following a period of intensive operations. We aimed to investigate the rate, timing, and risk factors for suicide in personnel who left the UKAF over a 23-year period.

Methods and findings

We carried out a retrospective cohort study of suicide in personnel who left the regular UKAF between 1996 and 2018 linking national databases of discharged personnel and suicide deaths, using survival analysis to examine the risk of suicide in veterans compared to the general population and conditional logistic regression to investigate factor

SUBMITTER: Rodway C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10409259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature