Somatic panic-attack equivalents in a community sample of Rwandan widows who survived the 1994 genocide

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Hagengimana, Athanase ^a   Hinton, Devon ^a,b   Bird, Bruce ^a   Pollack, Mark ^a   Pitman, Roger K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Revere Counseling Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Holocaust; Panic disorder; Post traumatic; Rwanda; Stress disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COMMUNITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PANIC; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RWANDA; SAMPLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM; WIDOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RWANDA; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 0037464894     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(02)00301-3     Document Type: Article

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