Comorbidity as a predictor of symptom change after treatment in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-99

  Forbes, David ^a   Creamer, Mark ^a   Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   Allen, Nicholas ^a   McHugh, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOLDIER; VIET NAM; WAR;

EID: 0037326902     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NMD.0000051903.60517.98     Document Type: Article

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