Long-Term Course of Treatment-Seeking Vietnam Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Mortality, Clinical Condition, and Life Satisfaction

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-41

  Johnson, David Read ^a   Fontana, Alan ^b   Lubin, Hadar ^a   Corn, Barbara ^a,b   Rosenheck, Robert ^b  

^a Post Traumatic Stress Center   (United States)

^b National Center for PTSD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLDIER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIET NAM; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AROUSAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VETERANS; VIETNAM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0346502776     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000105998.90425.6a     Document Type: Article

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