Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety among Gaza Strip adolescents in the wake of the second Uprising (Intifada)

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 719-729

  Elbedour, Salman ^a   Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J ^b   Ghannam, Jess ^c   Whitcome, Janine A ^d   Hein, Fadel Abu ^e  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e Community Training Center and Crisis Management ^*  (Palestine)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Gaza Strip; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALESTINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARABS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 34547673206     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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