Psychological interventions for the treatment of depression, anxiety, alcohol misuse or anger in armed forces veterans and their families: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.
dc.contributor.author | O'Shea, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Watkins, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Farrand, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-21T14:48:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-15 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: Evidence highlights a high prevalence of common mental health disorders in armed forces veterans and their families, with depression, anxiety, alcohol misuse and anger being more common than PTSD. This paper presents a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis to identify existing randomised controlled trial (RCT) research testing the effectiveness of psychological interventions for these difficulties in armed forces veterans and their family members. METHODS: Electronic databases (CENTRAL, PsycInfo, MEDLINE, CINAHL, The Cochrane Register of Clinical Trials, EMBASE and ASSIA) will be searched to identify suitable studies for inclusion in the review supplemented by forward and backward reference checking, grey literature searches and contact with subject authors. Research including armed forces veterans and their family members will be included in the review with research including serving personnel or individuals under the age of 18 being excluded. Few RCTs examining the treatment of depression, anxiety, alcohol misuse or anger exist in armed forces veterans to date. The primary outcome will be symptomatic change following intervention for these difficulties. The secondary outcomes will include methodological aspects of interest such as discharge type and recruitment setting if data permits. In the event that the number of studies identified is too low to undertake a meta-analysis, a narrative review will be conducted. Quality assessment will be undertaken using the Cochrane Collaboration Tool and Cochran's Q statistic calculated to test for heterogeneity as suggested by the Cochrane handbook. DISCUSSION: The review will examine the findings of existing intervention research for depression, anxiety, alcohol misuse or anger in armed forces veterans and their families, along with any effect sizes that may exist. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42016036676. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Libor Fund | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6: 112 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13643-017-0513-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/37622 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | BMC | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28619078 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Alcohol misuse | en_GB |
dc.subject | Anger | en_GB |
dc.subject | Anxiety | en_GB |
dc.subject | Armed forces | en_GB |
dc.subject | Depression | en_GB |
dc.subject | Military | en_GB |
dc.subject | Military family | en_GB |
dc.subject | Psychological | en_GB |
dc.subject | Systematic review | en_GB |
dc.subject | Veteran | en_GB |
dc.title | Psychological interventions for the treatment of depression, anxiety, alcohol misuse or anger in armed forces veterans and their families: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-21T14:48:41Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2046-4053 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Systematic Reviews | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-07-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-06-21T14:42:16Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-06-21T14:48:45Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA | |
refterms.depositExceptionExplanation | https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2Fs13643-017-0513-8 |
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