Predictors of peritraumatic reactions and PTSD following the September 11th terrorist attacks

Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-141

  Lawyer, Steven R ^a   Resnick, Heidi S ^b   Galea, Sandro ^c   Ahern, Jennifer ^c   Kilpatrick, Dean G ^b   Vlahov, David ^c  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33746800185     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2006.69.2.130     Document Type: Article

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