Chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and diagnostic comorbidity in a disaster sample

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 180, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 760-766

  Green, Bonnie L ^a   Lindy, Jacob D ^b,c   Grace, Mary C ^b   Leonard, Anthony C ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c Cincinnati Center for Psychoanalysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; DRUG ABUSE; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VICTIM;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VETERANS;

EID: 0027064555     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199212000-00004     Document Type: Article

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