Traumatic Exposure Severity Scale (TESS): A measure of exposure to major disasters

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-220

  Elal, Guliz ^a,b   Slade, Peter ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EARTHQUAKE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; EVALUATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TURKEY;

EID: 33749323090     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20030     Document Type: Article

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