Psychological consequences of war trauma and postwar social stressors in women in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-176

  Klarić, Miro ^a,d   Klarić, Branka ^a   Stevanović, Aleksandra ^b   Grković, Jasna ^c   Jonovska, Suzana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c Children's Hospital Rijeka   (Croatia)

^d Psychiatric Hospital   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STRESS; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; URBAN AREA; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 34247535012     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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