Follow-up study of concentration camp survivors from Bosnia- Herzegovina: Three years later

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 690-694

  Drozdek, Boris ^a  

^a RIAGG Den Bosch   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; REFUGEES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030828715     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199711000-00007     Document Type: Article

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