Risk factors for posttraumatic stress symptomatology in police officers: A prospective analysis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 498-506

  Carlier, Ingrid V E ^a   Lamberts, Regina D ^a   Gersons, Berthold P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTROVERSION; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLICE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0030929985     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199708000-00004     Document Type: Article

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