Deployment to a combat zone and other risk factors for mental health-related disability discharge from the U.S. Army: 1994-2007

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-43

  Bell, Nicole S ^a   Hunt, Phillip ^a   Harford, Thomas C ^b   Kay, Ashley ^a  

^a SSDS Inc   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 79951861744     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20612     Document Type: Article

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