Application of the high risk model of threat perception to a primary care patient population

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 369-375

  McGrady, Angele ^a,b   Lynch, Denis ^a   Nagel, Rollin ^a   Zsembik, Connie ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b Ruppert Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HYPNOSIS; HYPOTHESIS; PAIN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SELF REPORT; SOMATIZATION;

CAUSALITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0033019243     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199906000-00006     Document Type: Article

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