The health of Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Factor analysis of self-reported symptoms

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1014-1020

  Forbes, Andrew B ^a   McKenzie, D P ^a   Mackinnon, A J ^a   Kelsall, H L ^a   McFarlane, A C ^b   Ikin, J F ^a   Glass, D C ^a   Sim, M R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; SOMATIC DELUSION; SOMATIC DISTRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GULF WAR; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 9444281445     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.011791     Document Type: Article

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