Psychiatric and cognitive effects of war in former Yugoslavia association of lack of redress for trauma and posttraumatic stress reactions

JAMA

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Başoǧlu, Metin ^a   Livanou, Maria ^a   Crnobarić, Cvetana ^b   Frančišković, Tanja ^c   Suljić, Enra ^d   Durić, Dijana ^e   Vranešić, Melin ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department for Psychiatry   (SCG)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^e Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Dr Miroslav Zotovi Banja Luka   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BATTLE INJURY; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JUSTICE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK; SEX ROLE; TORTURE; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 23044440199     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.5.580     Document Type: Review

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