Combat deployment is associated with sexual harassment or sexual assault in a large, female military cohort

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  LeardMann, Cynthia A ^a   Pietrucha, Amanda ^a   Magruder, Kathryn M ^b   Smith, Besa ^a   Murdoch, Maureen ^c   Jacobson, Isabel G ^a   Ryan, Margaret A K ^d   Gackstetter, Gary ^e   Smith, Tyler C ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^e ANSER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE STRESS; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RAPE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879813069     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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