Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by war in veterans
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This article is published in Iranian Journal of War and Public Health.The article was published on 2017-03-10 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Traumatic stress.read more
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Studying the Prevalence of PTSD in Veterans, Combatants and Freed Soldiers of Iran-Iraq War: A Systematic and Meta-analysis Review.
Hassan Shahmiri Barzoki,Mohammadreza Ebrahimi,Alireza Khoshdel,Ahmad Ali Noorbala,Amir Mohsen Rahnejat,Lababeh Avarzamani,Haleh Shahed Hagh Ghadam,Farhad Avakh +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected and compared conducted research to estimate the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in combatants, veterans, and freed soldiers of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
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Review the Psychometric Properties of Iranian Version of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI) in the Military Personnel and Compilation of Polygraph Scale for It
Seyed Vali Kazemi Rezaei,Mohammadreza Ebrahimi,Amir Mohsen Rahnejat,Farhad Avakh Kisemi,Hasan Shahmiri,Arsia Taghva,Fahimeh Ghahvehchi-Alhosseini,Mohammad Majdian +7 more
TL;DR: The psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the Mental Health Inventory in military personnel and to compile a lie detector scale for it can be said that the mental health inventory has good reliability and validity and can be used for research and clinical purposes in the field of mental health of the military.
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Effect of Reminiscence on the Happiness the Retired Elderly Members of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army
TL;DR: Considering that reminiscence is an appealing, simple, and inexpensive intervention, it could be used to reduce anxiety in the elderly and foster a joyful atmosphere in geriatric healthcare centers.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey.
TL;DR: Progress in estimating age-at-onset distributions, cohort effects, and the conditional probabilities of PTSD from different types of trauma will require future epidemiologic studies to assess PTSD for all lifetime traumas rather than for only a small number of retrospectively reported "most serious" traumAs.
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Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems, and barriers to care.
Charles W. Hoge,Carl A. Castro,Stephen C. Messer,Dennis McGurk,Dave I. Cotting,Robert L. Koffman +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the mental health of four U.S. combat infantry units (three Army units and one Marine Corps unit) using an anonymous survey that was administered to the subjects either before their deployment to Iraq (n=2530) or three to four months after their return from combat duty in Iraq or Afghanistan (n =3671).
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Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL).
TL;DR: The psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist, a new, brief, self-report instrument, were determined on a population of 40 motor vehicle accident victims and sexual assault victims using diagnoses and scores from the CAPS as the criteria to support the value of the PCL as a brief screening instrument for PTSD.
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Traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder in an urban population of young adults
TL;DR: Life-style differences associated with differential exposure to situations that have a high risk for traumatic events and personal predispositions to the PTSD effects of traumatic events might be responsible for a substantial part of PTSD in this population.
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Bringing the War Back Home: Mental Health Disorders Among 103 788 US Veterans Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Seen at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities
TL;DR: The youngest group of OEF/OIF veterans (age, 18-24 years) were at greatest risk for receiving mental health or posttraumatic stress disorder diagnoses compared with veterans 40 years or older.