PICO Element

Search Terms

Population: Serving members

Milita*; Soldier*; Officer*; Infantry; Defen$e; Arm*; Navy; Air force*; Armed service*; Marine; Combat*; Armed force*; Military personnel [MeSH]

Population: Spousal partners

Spouse; Husband; Wife; De facto; Partner; Accompanied; Spouse [MeSH]

Intervention: Serving in a defence force

Serv*; Deploy*; Enlist*; Duty; Post*; Station*; Assign*; Combat; Armed service

Comparator:

N/A—identified via screening. Civilian couples with neither partner ever serving in a defence force. The comparator could be an in-study control group or in text reported population normative data.

Outcomes: Physical health, social and emotional health

Disease; Illness; Mortality; Morbidity; Hospitalisation*; “Health related risk”; Alcohol; AOD; “Alcohol and other drugs”; Substance abuse; Substance misuse; Suicid*; Intentional harm; “Quality of life”; “Health related quality of life”; Social support; Mental health; Mental illness; “Common mental illness”; “Common mental disorder”; Depressi*; Anxiety; Psychosis; Bi-polar; Schizophrenia; “Post-traumatic stress disorder”; “Obsessive-compulsive disorder”; Disease [MeSH]; Mortality [MeSH]; Morbidity [MeSH]; Substance related disorders [MeSH]; Quality of Life [MeSH]; Social Support [MeSH]; Mental health [MeSH]; Mental disorders [MeSH]