Effect of transition home from combat on risk-taking and health-related behaviors

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 381-389

  Adler, Amy B ^a   Britt, Thomas W ^a,b   Castro, Carl Andrew ^c   McGurk, Dennis ^a   Bliese, Paul D ^a  

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

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK-TAKING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 80051868575     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20665     Document Type: Article

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