Posttraumatic stress disorder among female street-based sex workers in the greater Sydney area, Australia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Roxburgh, Amanda ^a   Degenhardt, Louisa ^a   Copeland, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SYMPTOM; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RAPE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33745475038     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-6-24     Document Type: Article

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