Reactions to combat stress in Israeli veterans twenty years after the 1982 Lebanon war

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 935-939

  Solomon, Zahava ^a   Shklar, Rami ^a   Singer, Yaffa ^c   Mikulincer, Mario ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Combat stress reaction; Military psychiatry; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; LEBANON; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; VETERAN; WAR;

AGING, PREMATURE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMBAT DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEBANON; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 33845799065     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000249060.48248.ba     Document Type: Article

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