Symptom structure and psychiatric comorbidity of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 343-349

  Vuksic Mihaljevic, Željka ^a   Mandić, Nikola ^a   Mihaljević, Silvio ^a   Ivandić, Ante ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Combat related post traumatic stress disorder; Psychiatric comorbidity symptom structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROATIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0032856223     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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