Gender differences in traumatic event exposure and mental health among veteran primary care patients

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 750-758

  Freedy, John R ^a   Magruder, Kathryn M ^a,b   Mainous, Arch G ^a   Frueh, B Chris ^a,b   Geesey, Mark E ^a   Carnemolla, Mark ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958018764     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00123     Document Type: Article

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