Torture, culture, war zone exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder criterion A's bracket creep [1]

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-116

  Bracha, H Stefan ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SAMPLING; TACHYCARDIA; TERRORISM; TORTURE; WAR; AFGHANISTAN; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; IRAQ; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFGHANISTAN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HUMANS; IRAQ; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE; WAR;

EID: 38049173589     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2007.14     Document Type: Letter

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