Reliability and validity of the scales related to post traumatic stress disorder of Sri Lankan version

International Congress Series

Volumn 1287, Issue , 2006, Pages 82-85

  Miyazaki, Takao ^a,b   Dewaraja, Ratnin ^c   Kawamura, Noriyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Text Editing Service   (Japan)

Author keywords

Harvard trauma questionnaire; Hopkins symptom checklist; Impact of the event scale revised; PTSD; Sri Lankan version

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646553350     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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