Chronicity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Predictors of the Course of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Primary Care Patients

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-159

  Zlotnick, Caron ^a   Rodriguez, Benjamin F ^b   Weisberg, Risa B ^b   Bruce, Steven E ^b   Spencer, Michael A ^b   Culpepper, Larry ^c   Keller, Martin B ^b  

^a BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronicity; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 1342346533     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000110287.16635.8e     Document Type: Article

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