Serious injuries sustained in combat by male soldiers from the United Kingdom were associated with poor mental health outcomes, and the type of injury influenced the severity of the outcome, per a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.
“Military personnel who sustain a combat injury are at increased risk of poor mental health outcomes, but there is little evidence about the risk of such outcomes in the U.K. military,” Daniel Dyball, BSc, of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London, and colleagues wrote.
Researchers sought to examine the