Deployment-related mild traumatic brain injury, mental health problems, and post-concussive symptoms in Canadian armed forces personnel

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Garber, Bryan G ^a   Rusu, Corneliu ^a   Zamorski, Mark A ^a  

^a Directorate of Mental Health Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters Deployment Health Section   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AMNESIA; ARMY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CANADIAN; COGNITIVE FAILURES QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; PANIC; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SOLDIER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; MENTAL DISORDERS; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924030872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-014-0325-5     Document Type: Article

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