Posttraumatic stress and its relationship to physical health functioning in a sample of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans seeking postdeployment VA health care

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 425-428

  Jakupcak, Matthew ^a,c   Luterek, Jane ^a,b   Hunt, Stephen ^a   Conybeare, Daniel ^a,b   McFall, Miles ^b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Education   (United States)

^c Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Combat; Iraq; Physical health functioning; Posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; VETERANS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 43649087160     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31817108ed     Document Type: Article

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