Heterogeneity of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in Croatian War veterans: Retrospective study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-139

  Begić, Dražen ^a   Jokić Begić, Nataša ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROATIA; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PARANOIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHASTHENIA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; CROATIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 34247515590     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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