Mental disorder symptoms among public safety personnel in Canada

RN Carleton, TO Afifi, S Turner… - The Canadian …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Canadian public safety personnel (PSP; eg, correctional workers, dispatchers,
firefighters, paramedics, police officers) are exposed to potentially traumatic events as a …

Role of morality in the experience of guilt and shame within the armed forces

A Nazarov, R Jetly, H McNeely, M Kiang… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Despite advances in our understanding of mental health issues among military
forces, a large proportion of military personnel continue to exhibit deployment‐related …

Mental health of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans: review of population studies

JM Thompson, LD VanTil… - Journal of Military …, 2016 - jmvfh.utpjournals.press
Introduction. The mental health of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) populations emerged as
an important concern in the wake of difficult CAF deployments in the 1990s. This article is …

Moral injury associated with increased odds of past-year mental health disorders: A Canadian Armed Forces examination

B Easterbrook, RA Plouffe, SA Houle, A Liu… - European journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs) are common during military
service. However, it is unclear to what extent PMIEs are related to well-established adverse …

Greater prevalence of post‐traumatic stress disorder and depression in deployed Canadian Armed Forces personnel at risk for moral injury

A Nazarov, D Fikretoglu, A Liu… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background A link between moral injury (ie, the psychological distress caused by perceived
moral transgressions) and adverse mental health outcomes (AMHO) has been recently …

Homeostatic normalization of alpha brain rhythms within the default-mode network and reduced symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorder following a randomized …

AA Nicholson, M Densmore, PA Frewen… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Collective research has identified a key electroencephalogram signature in patients with
post-traumatic stress disorder, consisting of abnormally reduced alpha (8–12 Hz) rhythms …

Prevalence comparison of past-year mental disorders and suicidal behaviours in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian general population

C Rusu, MA Zamorski, D Boulos… - The Canadian Journal …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Military personnel in Canada and elsewhere have been found to have higher
rates of certain mental disorders relative to their corresponding general populations …

On the economics of post-traumatic stress disorder among first responders in Canada

S Wilson, H Guliani, G Boichev - Journal of Community Safety and …, 2016 - journalcswb.ca
There is an increasing awareness of the tragic consequences of post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) among first responders in Canada. There is also an increasing awareness …

Prevalence of past-year mental disorders in the Canadian Armed Forces, 2002-2013

MA Zamorski, RE Bennett, C Rusu… - The Canadian …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel have deployed in
support of the mission in Afghanistan since 2002. Over the same period, the CAF …

The 2013 Canadian forces mental health survey: background and methods

MA Zamorski, RE Bennett, D Boulos… - The Canadian …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey (CFMHS) collected detailed
information on mental health problems, their impacts, occupational and nonoccupational …