Mental health attrition from Air Force basic military training

Military Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 834-838

  Cigrang, Jeffrey A ^a   Carbone, Eric G ^a   Todd, Sandra ^a   Fiedler, Edna ^a  

^a Lackland Air Force Base ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOTIVATION; SCREENING; SOLDIER; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TRAINING;

EID: 0032424540     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/163.12.834     Document Type: Article

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