Self-reported combat stress indicators among troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: an epidemiological study

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-345

  Riddle, Mark S ^a   Sanders, John W ^a   Jones, James J ^b   Webb, Schuyler C ^c  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Troop Medical Clinic   (Qatar)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MORTALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QATAR; SCREENING; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 44749094795     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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