The revised civilian Mississippi Scale for PTSD: Reliability, validity, and cross-language stability

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 285-298

  Norris, Fran H ^a   Perilla, Julia L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

civilian Mississippi Scale; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0029949890     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02110661     Document Type: Article

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