Mental health of Special Forces personnel deployed in battle

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1343-1351

  Hanwella, Raveen ^a   De Silva, Varuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Military personnel; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sri Lanka; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS; WAR;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SRI LANKA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864927754     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0442-0     Document Type: Article

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