Course of posttraumatic stress disorder 40 years after the Vietnamwar findings from the national Vietnam veterans longitudinal study

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 875-881

  Marmar, Charles R ^a   Schlenger, William ^b   Henn Haase, Clare ^a   Qian, Meng ^a   Purchia, Emily ^a   Li, Meng ^a   Corry, Nida ^b   Williams, Christianna S ^b   Ho, Chia Lin ^b   Horesh, Danny ^a,c   Karstoft, Karen Inge ^a,d   Shalev, Arieh ^a,c   Kulka, Richard A ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Abt Associates Inc   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED PTSD SCALE FOR DSM 5; DATA ANALYSIS; DSM-IV; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MISSISSIPPI SCALE FOR COMBAT RELATED PTSD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD CHECKLIST FOR DSM 5 ITEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; VETERAN; VIET NAM; WAR; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 84940999061     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.0803     Document Type: Article

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