The trauma symptom inventory: Factors associated with invalid profiles in a sample of combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 857-860

  Nye, Ella C ^a,b   Qualls, Clifford ^b   Katzman, Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL RESPONSE SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; TRAUMA SYMPTOM INVENTORY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VETERAN;

EID: 33748768983     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.9.857     Document Type: Article

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