Somatoform symptoms, anxiety, and depression in the context of traumatic life experiences by comparing participants with and without psychiatric diagnoses

Psychopathology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 303-312

  Hexel, Martina ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Physical abuse; Sexual abuse; Somatoform symptoms; Traumatic life experience

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STOMACH DISEASE; URINE RETENTION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0036437697     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067066     Document Type: Article

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