Williamson, Charlotte http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2104-921X
Palmer, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-5709
Leightley, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-752X
Pernet, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7469-0150
Chandran, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0123-666X
Leal, Ray
Murphy, Dominic http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9530-2743
Fear, Nicola T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-2925
Stevelink, Sharon A. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-7986
Funding for this research was provided by:
Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT18/0525KCL)
Article History
Received: 1 June 2022
Accepted: 12 December 2022
First Online: 22 December 2022
Declarations
:
: NTF sits on the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Patient Data at NHS Digital and is a trustee of a charity supporting the Armed Forces Covenant. DM is employed by Combat Stress, a national charity in the UK that provides clinical mental health services to veterans. DM is also a trustee for the Forces in Mind Trust (FIMT: the project funder). DL is a reservist in the UK Armed Forces; this work has been undertaken as part of his civilian employment. SAMS is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, NIHR Advanced Fellowship, Dr Sharon Stevelink, NIHR300592. CW is currently in receipt of a PhD studentship via the King’s Centre for Military Health Research Health and Wellbeing Study funded by the Office of Veterans’ Affairs (OVA), Cabinet Office, UK Government. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, Combat Stress, FiMT, the NIHR or the OVA.
: Ethical approval for the use of Clinical Record Interactive Search as an anonymised database for secondary analysis was granted by the Oxford Research Ethics Committee (reference: 18/SC/0372). The current study has been approved by the Patient Data Oversight Committee of the National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre (reference: 20-049).
: None required.