Psychotic symptoms and comorbid psychiatric disorders in croatian combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder patients

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-183

  Ivezić, Slacrossdsignana ^a   Bagarić, Ante ^a   Oruč, Liliana ^b   Mimica, Ninoslav ^a   Ljubin, Tajana ^c  

^a Psychiatric Hospital Vrap e   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c Police College   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Croatia; Depression, reactive, psychotic; Depressive disorder; Neuroses, post traumatic; Personality disorders; Psychosis; PTSD; Stress disorders, post traumatic; Veterans; War

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; WAR;

ADULT; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 0034101675     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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