Sleep and Resilience: A Longitudinal 37-Year Follow-up Study of Vietnam Repatriated Prisoners of War
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Sleep and resilience: a longitudinal 37-year follow-up study of Vietnam repatriated prisoners of war.
This study examined sleep histories associated with resilience after trauma defined as a continuous lack of psychiatric illness across 37 years. Data were drawn from a 37-year follow-up examination of the effects of the Vietnam prisoner of war (POW) experience. The Robert E. Mitchell Center for POW Studies is a unique institution holding the only longitudinal study of the effects of the America...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-12-00227