Prevalence of mental health problems and functional impairment among active component and national guard soldiers 3 and 12 months following combat in Iraq

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 614-623

  Thomas, Jeffrey L ^a   Wilk, Joshua E ^a   Riviere, Lyndon A ^a   McGurk, Dennis ^b   Castro, Carl A ^c   Hoge, Charles W ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SOLDIER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAQ; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 77953304470     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.54     Document Type: Article

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