Validation of a measure to assess Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Sinhalese version of impact of event scale

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages

  John, Prashantham Baddam ^a   Russell, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar ^b  

^a Christian Counselling Centre   (India)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SRI LANKA; SURVIVOR; TSUNAMI; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 33847619189     PISSN: 17450179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-0179-3-4     Document Type: Article

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