Interaction of combat exposure and unit cohesion in predicting suicide-related ideation among post-deployment soldiers

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 486-494

  Mitchell, Mary M ^a   Gallaway, Michael Shayne ^a   Millikan, Amy M ^a   Bell, Michael ^b  

^a US Army Institute of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNITED STATES;

COMBAT DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866514426     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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