Receipt of Cervical Cancer Screening in Female Veterans: Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Weitlauf, Julie C ^a,b,c,d   Jones, Surai ^a   Xu, Xiangyan ^d   Finney, John W ^a,b   Moos, Rudolf H ^a,b   Sawaya, George F ^e   Frayne, Susan M ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE EVALUATION   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ICD-9; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VETERAN;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VETERANS;

EID: 84877316720     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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