Psychometric properties of Tamil version of Impact of Event Scale for adolescents

International Journal of Disaster Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 148-151

  Russell, Sushila ^a   Subramanian, Balakrishnan ^b   Russell, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

IES; instrument; post traumatic stress disorder; Tamil validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846929385     PISSN: 15031438     EISSN: 16513037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15031430500266572     Document Type: Article

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