Prevalence and impact of exposure to interpersonal violence among suburban and urban middle school students

Pediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 396-402

  Campbell, Carla ^a,b   Schwarz, Donald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

community violence; exposure to violence; firearms; posttraumatic stress disorder; psychological effects

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; URBAN POPULATION; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; CRIME; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PHILADELPHIA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0029794460     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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