Gender differences in the risk and protective factors associated with PTSD: A prospective study of national guard troops deployed to Iraq

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 256-272

  Kline, Anna ^a   Ciccone, Donald S ^c   Weiner, Marc ^b   Interian, Alejandro ^a   St Hill, Lauren ^b   Falca Dodson, Maria ^c   Black, Christopher M ^a   Losonczy, Miklos ^d  

^a Veterans Administration   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COOPERATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEW JERSEY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84892544061     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2013.76.3.256     Document Type: Article

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