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Loading... Apr 19, 2024 · If you were deployed to a combat zone, you may have been in life-threatening situations. Or, you may have seen injury or death, been in a serious accident or handled human remains. Learn what research shows us about the link between level of combat stress and PTSD. Reading time: 5 minutes.
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Aug 7, 2023 · The Combat Exposure Scale (CES) is a 7-item self-report measure that assesses wartime stressors experienced by combatants.
Oct 10, 2019 · Combat exposure uniquely contributes to lower cortical thickness in regions implicated in executive functioning, attention, and memory after accounting for the effects of PTSD and prior head injury.
- Ashley N Clausen, Ashley N Clausen, Emily Clarke, Emily Clarke, Rachel D Phillips, Rachel D Phillips...
- 10.1038/s41386-019-0539-9
- 2020
- 2020/02
Dec 17, 2018 · As such, a greater understanding of modifiable risk factors that link combat exposure to post-traumatic stress symptoms and health-compromising behaviors is valuable to clinicians, scholars, and research scientists in psychiatry, mental health, behavioral science, and allied fields.
- Jeffrey M Osgood, Patrick H Finan, Sarah J Hinman, Christine J So, Phillip J Quartana
- 10.1093/sleep/zsy257
- 2019
- Sleep. 2019 Mar; 42(3): zsy257.
Aug 23, 2024 · Specific risk factors that happen during and after combat can also affect a person’s chances of developing PTSD. These include: 5,7. Exposure to combat. People who are deployed and experience combat have a higher rate of PTSD than those who were deployed but did not experience combat. Worry about family.
Aug 22, 2018 · One of the primary risk factors for the development of PTSD is combat exposure. Extensive research identifies combat exposure as a strong predictor of health and psychological complications in veterans due to the risk of physical injury, psychological trauma and other stressors related to war [6,7]. A recent study examined associations between ...
Combat Experiences and PTSD. If you were deployed to a combat zone, you may have been in life-threatening situations. Or, you may have seen injury or death, been in a serious accident or handled human remains. Learn what research shows us about the link between level of combat stress and PTSD.