Early intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and quality of life in mortuary affairs soldiers postdeployment

Military Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 11, 2016, Pages e1553-e1560

  Biggs, Quinn M ^a   Fullerton, Carol S ^a   McCarroll, James E ^a   Liu, Xian ^a   Wang, Leming ^a   Dacuyan, Nicole M ^a   Zatzick, Douglas F ^b   Ursano, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPLICATION; DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE EAST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WARFARE;

ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; WARFARE;

EID: 84996975871     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-15-00579     Document Type: Article

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