Problem gambling in Australian PTSD treatment-seeking veterans

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 759-767

  Biddle, Dirk ^a,b   Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   Forbes, David ^a   Coman, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; AUSTRALIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERAN;

AUSTRALIA; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VETERANS;

EID: 33645319773     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20084     Document Type: Article

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