Treatment outcomes and perception of social acknowledgment in war veterans: Follow-up study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-166

  Ljubotina, Damir ^a   Pantić, Zdenka ^b   Frančišković, Tanja ^c   Mladić, Martina ^b   Priebe, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; GROUP THERAPY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROATIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 34247518695     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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