Gender differences on documented trauma histories: Inpatients admitted to a military psychiatric unit for suicide-related thoughts or behaviors

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-190

  Cox, Daniel W ^a   Ghahramanlou Holloway, Marjan ^a   Szeto, Edwin H ^a   Greene, Farrah N ^a   Engel, Charles ^b   Wynn, Gary H ^c   Bradley, John ^b   Grammer, Geoffrey ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

gender; inpatient; military; Suicide; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL CRIME; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RAPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 79952171363     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31820c71c9     Document Type: Article

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