Use of the Air Force Post-Deployment Health Reassessment for the identification of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder: Public health implications for suicide prevention

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  McCarthy, Michael D ^a   Thompson, Sanna J ^b   Knox, Kerry L ^c  

^a Air Force Medical Support Agency   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLDIER; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE;

EID: 84857324750     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300580     Document Type: Article

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