Beyond battlemind: Evaluation of a new mental health training program for canadian forces personnel participating in third-location decompression

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1245-1253

  Zamorski, Mark A ^a   Guest, Kim ^a   Bailey, Lcol Suzanne ^a   Garber, Bryan G ^a  

^a Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CANADA; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84871209613     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00064     Document Type: Article

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