Telephone Problem-Solving Treatment Improves Sleep Quality in Service Members With Combat-Related Mild Traumatic

S Vuletic1, K R Bell, S Jain

  • 1National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), Tacoma, Washington (Drs Vuletic, Bush, Stanfill, and Gahm); Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine (Drs Bell, Temkin, Dikmen, and Brockway), Neurological Surgery (Drs Temkin and Dikmen), Biostatistics (Drs Temkin and Fann), and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Dr Fann), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas (Dr Bell); Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health (Drs Jain, Raman, and Stein and Messrs He and Ernstrom) and Psychiatry (Dr Stein), University of California San Diego, La Jolla; Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California (Dr Grant); and Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE), Olympia, Washington (Dr Gahm).

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