Eating disorders, post-traumatic stress, and sexual trauma in women veterans

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1161-1168

  Forman Hoffman, Valerie L ^a,b   Mengeling, Michelle ^c   Booth, Brenda M ^d   Torner, James ^b   Sadler, Anne G ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SEXUAL CRIME; STATISTICS; VETERAN;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RAPE; SEX OFFENSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867513142     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00041     Document Type: Article

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