Personal characteristics affecting veterans' use of services for posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 862-867

  Brooks, Elizabeth ^a,b   Novins, Douglas K ^a   Thomas, Deborah ^c   Jiang, Luohua ^d   Nagamoto, Herbert T ^e   Dailey, Nancy ^b   Bair, Byron ^b   Shore, Jay H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARMY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MILITARY PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84866478654     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100444     Document Type: Article

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