Readjustment stressors and early mental health treatment seeking by returning national guard soldiers with PTSD

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 855-861

  Interian, Alejandro ^a,b   Kline, Anna ^a,b   Callahan, Lanora ^c   Losonczy, Miklos ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; MOOD STABILIZER; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; OCCUPATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; READJUSTMENT STRESSOR; SOCIAL STRESS; SOLDIER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866513634     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100337     Document Type: Article

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