Alcohol use, military sexual trauma, expectancies, and coping skills in women veterans presenting to primary care
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Alcohol use, military sexual trauma, expectancies, and coping skills in women veterans presenting to primary care.
BACKGROUND Little is known regarding alcohol use and its correlates in women veterans. An understanding of these variables is of utility to providers in primary care at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, who are among the first to identify and intervene for problem drinking. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to describe and explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addictive Behaviors
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0306-4603
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.02.006