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.

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