Evaluating the physical and psychosocial impact of serious physical combat injuries in UK armed forces personnel-the ADVANCE cohort study.

ABSTRACT: The ADVANCE cohort study is a prospective cohort study investigating the impact of sustaining a serious physical combat injury whilst on deployment to Afghanistan on long-term health outcomes. The cohort will provide essential data on medical/psychosocial risk factors and outcomes associated with combat injury and establish injury-specific mechanisms of disease. Participants include UK Armed Forces personnel who sustained serious physical combat injuries and a frequency-matched comparison group who sustained no such injuries (uninjured group). The cohort consists of 1145 participants, with a baseline response rate of 59.6% for the injured group (n = 579) and 56.3% for the uninjured group (n = 566). The first follow up of this cohort retained 92% of the sample (n = 1053/1145). This cohort p

SUBMITTER: Dyball D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12660447 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature