Post-traumatic stress symptomatology among health care professionals in Croatia

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 529-535

  Shields, Jodi ^a   Erdal, Kristi ^a   Skrinjaric, Jarmila ^b   Majic, Gordan ^b  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0032701702     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080400     Document Type: Article

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