Dimensionality of posttraumatic stress symptoms: A confirmatory factor analysis of DSM-IV symptom clusters and other symptom models

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 203-214

  Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a,b   Frombach, Inger ^a,b   McQuaid, John ^c   Pedrelli, Paolo ^c   Lenox, Rebecca ^c   Stein, Murray B ^c  

^a REGINA QU APPELLE HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0033991111     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00061-3     Document Type: Article

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