Development of a brief questionnaire to measure mental health outcomes among Pentagon employees following the September 11, 2001 attack

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 60-63

  Hoge, Charles W ^a   Engel, Charles C ^a   Orman, David T ^a   Crandell, Edward O ^a   Patterson, Virgil J ^a   Cox, Anthony L ^a   Tobler, Steven K ^a   Ursano, Robert J ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY; ARMY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY MEDICINE; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036736458     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.suppl_4.60     Document Type: Article

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