Post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression among Italian Nazi concentration camp survivors: A controlled study 50 years later

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-95

  Favaro, Angela ^a   Rodella, F C ^b   Colombo, G ^b   Santonastaso, P ^b  

^a Dipto Sci Neurologiche P   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; LIFESPAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISON; WAR;

AGED; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0032898029     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798007855     Document Type: Article

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