Assessing elder victimization - Demonstration of a methodology

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 644-653

  Acierno, Ron ^a   Resnick, Heidi ^a   Kilpatrick, Dean ^a   Stark Riemer, Wendy ^a  

^a National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Elder abuse; Epidemiology; Methodology; Prevalence; Violence

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL CRIME; TELEPHONE; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELDER ABUSE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0344825802     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0686-4     Document Type: Article

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