Web-based alcohol intervention for veterans: PTSD, combat exposure, and alcohol outcomes.
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Study protocol for a web-based personalized normative feedback alcohol intervention for young adult veterans.
BACKGROUND Young adult veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a population at-risk for heavy and problematic alcohol use. Unfortunately, few seek treatment for alcohol concerns and those that do seek care may drop out from lengthy multicomponent treatments. Additionally, veterans who live in rural areas and those who are not engaged in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1942-969X,1942-9681
DOI: 10.1037/tra0000281