An ethnocultural study of posttraumatic stress disorder in African-American and White American Vietnam War Veterans

Psychological Reports

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 585-592

  Trent Jr , Calvin R ^a   Rushlau, Matthew G ^b   Munley, Patrick H ^b   Bloem, William ^a   Driesenga, Scott ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 0034297983     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.87.6.585-592     Document Type: Article

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