Violence Exposure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depressive Symptoms among Recent Immigrant Schoolchildren

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1104-1110

  Jaycox, Lisa H ^a   Stein, Bradley D ^a,b   Kataoka, Sheryl H ^b   Wong, Marleen ^c   Fink, Arlene ^b   Escudero, Pia ^c   Zaragoza, Catalina ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Los Angeles Unified School District   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Immigrant children; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Trauma; Violence exposure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; KOREA; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LINEAR MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036718799     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200209000-00011     Document Type: Article

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