Natural course of posttraumatic stress disorder: A 20-month prospective study of Turkish earthquake survivors

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 882-889

  Karamustafalioglu, Oguz K ^a   Zohar, Joseph ^b,c   Güveli, Mustafa ^d   Gal, Gilad ^b   Bakim, Bahadir ^a   Fostick, Leah ^b   Karamustafalioglu, Nesrin ^e   Sasson, Yehuda ^b,c  

^a Sisli Eftal Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Health Department of Istanbul Municipality   (Turkey)

^e Bakirkoy State Teaching and Research Hospital for Neuropsychiatry   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 33745879787     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v67n0604     Document Type: Article

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