Prevalence of mental health symptoms in Dutch military personnel returning from deployment to Afghanistan: A 2-year longitudinal analysis

European Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 341-346

  Reijnen, A ^a,b,c   Rademaker, A R ^a   Vermetten, E ^a,b,c,d   Geuze, E ^a,b  

^a Ministerie van Defensie   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Psychotrauma Research Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Longitudinal analysis; Mental health symptoms; Military personnel; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DUTCHMAN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84921279393     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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