PTSD as a mediator between childhood rape and alcohol use in adult women

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-234

  Epstein, Jeffery N ^a,b   Saunders, Benjamin E ^a   Kilpatrick, Dean G ^a   Resnick, Heidi S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; PTSD; Rape; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0032032641     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(97)00133-6     Document Type: Article

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