Predictors of changes in daily alcohol consumption in the aftermath of military deployment

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 147, Issue , 2015, Pages 175-182

  Trautmann, S ^a   Schonfeld S ^a   Behrendt, S ^a   Heinrich, A ^a   Hofler M ^a   Siegel, S ^b   Zimmermann, P ^b   Wittchen, H U ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Research and Treatment Center for Traumatic Stress   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Decrease; Deployment; Increase; Predictors; Stressful experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NEGLECT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOLDIER; STRESS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920944459     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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