Psychosocial functioning and health-related quality of life associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in male and female Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans: The VALOR registry

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1038-1046

  Fang, Shona C ^a   Schnurr, Paula P ^b,c   Kulish, Andrea L ^d   Holowka, Darren W ^d,e   Marx, Brian P ^d,e   Keane, Terence M ^d,e   Rosen, Raymond ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VA National Center for PTSD   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARMY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; WAR; HEALTH SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AFGHANISTAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84949986017     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2014.5096     Document Type: Article

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