A decade of war: Prospective trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among deployed US military personnel and the influence of combat exposure

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1310-1318

  Donoho, Carrie J ^a,b,c   Bonanno, George A ^d   Porter, Ben ^a   Kearney, Lauren ^a,c   Powell, Teresa M ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat; Growth mixture models; Military; PTSD

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; GROWTH; GROWTH MODELING; MENTAL HEALTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY SERVICE; ONSET AGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; SOLDIER; WAR EXPOSURE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 85038250514     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx318     Document Type: Article

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