Childbirth and posttraumatic stress responses a validation study of the Dutch impact of event scale - Revised

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 259-267

  Olde, Eelco ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^a   Van Der Hart, Onno ^a   Pop, Victor J M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childbirth; IES R; Posttraumatic stress; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750995545     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.22.4.259     Document Type: Article

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