May 15, 2006

mental health of UK personnel deployed in the 2003 Iraq war

Speakers:
Prof Simon Wessely, King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London
Prof Mathew Hotopf, Professor Dept of Psychological Medicine, King’s College
Dr Nicola Fear, senior lecturer in epidemiology, academic centre for defence mental health

Psychiatrists presented their new research published in the Lancet investigates the mental health of soldiers deployed in the 2003 Iraq War, based on extensive interviews with soldiers who were deployed to Iraq for the war and subsequent tours of duty.