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Swedish veterans of foreign conflicts and Veteran Health Limbo: [Svenska utlandsveteraner och Veteranhälsans limbo]
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7327-8519
2024 (English)In: Journal of Veteran Studies, E-ISSN 2470-4768, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 72-79Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article describes the mental health of Swedish veterans of foreign conflicts with a focus on Veteran Health Limbo, which is also the name of an ongoing research project. Veteran Health Limbo refers to those veterans of foreign conflicts whose mental healthis suffering, but who do not meet the criteria for clinical PTSD. The term limbo is used because the veterans are in between two health poles: a balanced well-being and a clinically diagnosable deterioration in mental health. Up to half of the patients at the veteran clinic in Sweden belong to this group. The concept of moral injury is a potential lens for understanding a decline in mental health that is not clinical and pathological. This article discusses this in a Swedish context.

Abstract [sv]

Den här artikeln beskriver måendet hos svenska utlandsveteraner och tar sikte på Veteranhälsans limbo, vilket också är namnet ett pågående forskningsprojekt. Veteranhälsans limbo åsyftar de utlandsveteraner som upplever ett försämrat mående och ökat lidande men ändå inte uppfyller kriterierna för klinisk PTSD. Uttrycket limbo används för att veteranerna befinner sig mitt emellan två måendepoler; ett balanserat välmående och en kliniskt diagnostiserbart försämrat mående. Upp till hälften av patienterna på veteranmottagningen i Sverige tillhör denna grupp. Begreppet moralisk skada ger en potentiell lins för att förstå ett försämrat mående som inte är kliniskt och patologiskt. I artikeln diskuteras detta, inklusive stödåtgärder, den svenska kontexten och framtida utmaningar.

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Virginia Tech Publishing , 2024. Vol. 10, no 2, p. 72-79
Keywords [en]
Veteran health, moral injury, identity, PTSD, Sweden
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Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology) Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-223687DOI: 10.21061/jvs.v10i2.467OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-223687DiVA, id: diva2:1853917
Available from: 2024-04-23 Created: 2024-04-23 Last updated: 2025-02-17Bibliographically approved

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