Awareness of posttraumatic stress disorder in Veterans: A female spouse/intimate partner perspective

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 743-751

  Buchanan, Cassandra ^a   Kemppainen, Jeanne ^b   Smith, Stephanie ^b   MacKain, Sally ^b   Cox, Catherine Wilson ^b  

^a Brynn Marr Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 80051616015     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00378     Document Type: Article

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