Article title: Exposure to combat and deployment; reviewing the military context in The Netherlands
Authors: Vermetten, E. & Ambaurm, J.
Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
Bibliometrics: Volume 31, Number 1, pages 49–59
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2019.1602517
On page 57 of the above article, the section Prospective research Prismo did not include a citation for the reference where the paragraph is taken from.
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The Prospective Research In Stress-related Military Operations (PRISMO) study was initiated in 2005 by the Research Centre of the Military Mental Healthcare at the Dutch Ministry of Defence, to prospectively and longitudinally study the biological underpinnings of the mental health of Dutch troops deployed to Afghanistan. At the time of the study’s start, the long-term impact of deployment and exposure to traumatic events in wartime on mental health had already gained widespread recognition, as epidemiological evidence from a range of studies indicated that the incidence of mental health problems after deployment was quite substantial. However, both aetiological evidence as well as biological determinants were sparse, even though they were highly warranted. We, therefore, facilitated prospective research on the correlation between stress-related systems and the occurrence of mental health problems that were presented in deployed troops. Considering its size and estimated duration, the Dutch participation in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan offered a unique opportunity to gain excellent understanding of the long-term impact of military deployment on mental health, and to map the different biological and psychological factors that contributed to the development of stress-related mental health symptoms. Whereas other cohort studies have attempted to address the impact of military service and deployment on mental health, the PRISMO study is different from other cohorts in including a pre-deployment measurement (cf. The King’s Cohort, The Millennium Cohort), collecting biological data in addition to psychological data (cf. The Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) No. 566), and including a long-term follow-up period up to 10 years after deployment (cf. The Army Study to Assess Risk & Resilience in Servicemembers–Pre/Post Deployment Study (Army STARRS–PPDS), Marine Resilience Study (MRS)). Not unlike other longitudinal cohort studies, the findings generated by the PRISMO cohort can contribute to an outlook on vulnerability and resilience, while they are also aimed at aiding the identification of factors in order to protect the mental health of service personnel and veterans (paragraph quoted from Van der Wal et al., 2019). To date, a total of over 30 publications with a mix of epidemiological, biological, as well as psychodiagnostics papers have resulted from the cohort. A complete list of publications can be found online (www.prismo.nl).