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Post-Deployment PTSD Symptoms More Common In Military Personnel With Pre-Deployment Mental Health Disorders Or Service-Related Physical Injuries

May 3, 2011 by

Military service members who screened positive for mental health disorders before deployment, or who were injured during deployment, were more likely to develop post-deployment posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms than their colleagues without these risk factors, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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