Psychiatric symptoms and health service utilization in rural and urban combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 701-704

  Elhai, Jon D ^a,b   Baugher, Shannon N ^b   Quevillon, Randal P ^a,b   Sauvageot, Julie ^c   Frueh, B Christopher ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health services; Military veterans; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Rural population; Service utilization

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MISSISSIPPI COMBAT POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SCALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOLDIER; URBAN POPULATION;

COMBAT DISORDERS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; URBAN POPULATION; VETERANS;

EID: 5444223051     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000142019.08890.35     Document Type: Article

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