Post-deployment PTSD symptoms more common in military personnel with prior mental health disorders
Monday, May 2, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
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.