Posttraumatic stress symptoms in refugees: Assessments with the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins symptom checklist-25 in different languages

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 527-532

  Kleijn, W C ^b   Hovens, J E ^a   Rodenburg, J J ^b  

^a Delta Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; REFUGEE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0035321722     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.2.527     Document Type: Article

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