Daily charting of posttraumatic stress symptoms: A pilot study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 683-692

  Johnson, David R ^a   Westermeyer, Joseph ^a   Kattar, Karen ^a   Thuras, Paul ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0036799741     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200210000-00005     Document Type: Article

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